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I understand money is tight for a non-profit, but why are bandwidth costs a gating factor? Both your upstreams, Cogent and Hurricane Electric, offer 100G ports
by bits_n_bytes 6y ago
I understand money is tight for a non-profit, but why are bandwidth costs a gating factor?
Both your upstreams, Cogent and Hurricane Electric, offer 100G ports at fiveish grand per month in carrier neutral DCs. Given that your budget is in the millions, an outlay of this magnitude doesn't seem wildly out of the question.
If you can explain what the problems are in getting more bandwidth, I'd be more than happy to see what I can do to help.
Please let me know if you'd prefer to discuss the matter over email.
- jonah-archive 6y agoHappy to chat in much greater detail over email if you like (in my profile) -- transit specifically is not generally our limiting cost (though of course in the context we operate in, every penny counts -- e.g. we run our own DCs, ambiently cooled, single-feed grid power with minimal backing, etc). We generally run very close to the edge, capacity-wise, in order to get the most out of what we have -- in this case, demand moved very quickly and we had to work a hardware deployment to catch up.
- bits_n_bytes 6y agoEmail sent.
- MaxBarraclough 6y agoI'm sure I'm not the only one who'd be interested in reading more of this. Is there a reason your conversation can't proceed on HackerNews?
- Aeolun 6y agoOr at least update us on the conclusion :)
- bits_n_bytes 6y agoYou can follow the thread on the NANOG list: https://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2020-May/107720.html https://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2020-May/107720.ht...