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5B requests/day is ~60k/second, that's big but nothing insane. There are numerous frameworks/setups that can do far more than that on a single machine [1] popu

by meritt 7y ago

5B requests/day is ~60k/second, that's big but nothing insane. There are numerous frameworks/setups that can do far more than that on a single machine [1] popular unmetered options: he.net, ovh, hetzner - You generally lose a lot of the "cloud" capability with these options however. cloud options: digital ocean egress is $0.01/GB ($0.005/GB if you buy it via droplets), linode is $0.02/GB, vultr is $0.01/GB, etc. [1] https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r18&hw=ph&test=db https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r18&hw=...

all_blue_chucks 7y ago
Unmetered connections are only unmetered until you cost them more than you're paying. They they throttle you or boot you. Nothing is free.
- meritt 7y ago
  I'm talking about actual unmetered where you pay for a dedicated amount of bandwidth, e.g. 1 Gbps / 10 Gbps / 20 Gbps. 10 Gbps usually goes for about $1k-$2k/mo in the US. This is how colo facilities have operated for decades. 10 Gbps fully saturated delivers about 3300TB for that $1-2k/mo, versus the $22k/mo you'd pay AWS for the same. I'm absolutely not talking about the "unlimited bandwdith" bullshit that discount hosts offer.
  - all_blue_chucks 7y ago
    If your project gets featured on CNN and your bandwidth goes up 20x can these colo arrangements automatically scale up your dedicated bandwidth? I ask because having an outage when you get your first big break can cost you WAY more than your bandwidth bill ever would...
echelon 7y ago
Is there anything cheaper than this? I'm about to stand up a streaming audio server and I'm worried about egress bandwidth costs.
- meritt 7y ago
  DI.FM uses cloudflare + bandwidth alliance [1] for their streaming audio network, so I'd model after that. Cloudflare isn't exactly transparent about their egress pricing, but most discussion seems to indicate once you start hitting about 50TB/mo, they'll strongly encourage you to upgrade to their $200/mo plan. But you can likely push tens of terabytes per month on their free or $20/plan. [1] https://www.cloudflare.com/case-studies/di-fm-eliminates-egress-costs-backblaze-cloudflare-bandwidth-alliance/ https://www.cloudflare.com/case-studies/di-fm-eliminates-egr...

by meritt 7y ago

all_blue_chucks 7y ago

Unmetered connections are only unmetered until you cost them more than you're paying. They they throttle you or boot you. Nothing is free.

meritt 7y ago
I'm talking about actual unmetered where you pay for a dedicated amount of bandwidth, e.g. 1 Gbps / 10 Gbps / 20 Gbps. 10 Gbps usually goes for about $1k-$2k/mo in the US. This is how colo facilities have operated for decades. 10 Gbps fully saturated delivers about 3300TB for that $1-2k/mo, versus the $22k/mo you'd pay AWS for the same. I'm absolutely not talking about the "unlimited bandwdith" bullshit that discount hosts offer.
- all_blue_chucks 7y ago
  If your project gets featured on CNN and your bandwidth goes up 20x can these colo arrangements automatically scale up your dedicated bandwidth? I ask because having an outage when you get your first big break can cost you WAY more than your bandwidth bill ever would...

echelon 7y ago

Is there anything cheaper than this? I'm about to stand up a streaming audio server and I'm worried about egress bandwidth costs.

meritt 7y ago
DI.FM uses cloudflare + bandwidth alliance [1] for their streaming audio network, so I'd model after that. Cloudflare isn't exactly transparent about their egress pricing, but most discussion seems to indicate once you start hitting about 50TB/mo, they'll strongly encourage you to upgrade to their $200/mo plan. But you can likely push tens of terabytes per month on their free or $20/plan. [1] https://www.cloudflare.com/case-studies/di-fm-eliminates-egress-costs-backblaze-cloudflare-bandwidth-alliance/ https://www.cloudflare.com/case-studies/di-fm-eliminates-egr...