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