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The days of $10/Mbps are fortunately behind us. You can get bandwidth for 10c/Mbps or less. Also a day of 300 Mbps would not have cost you thousands of dollars
by iptrans 6y ago
The days of $10/Mbps are fortunately behind us. You can get bandwidth for 10c/Mbps or less.
Also a day of 300 Mbps would not have cost you thousands of dollars as you get 36 hours for “free” when using 95th percentile billing.
- linsomniac 6y ago24 hours of 300Mbps would effective change the 95th %ile to 98.35 %ile, which could be dramatically higher than the 95%ile billing. As far as $0.1/Mbps, not common around here. Maybe in CA at HE or something, but I can't touch that price around here. Correct me if I wrong, but Amazon's price for a megabit/mo is $55-ish...
- iptrans 6y agoAmazon bandwidth pricing is wildly overinflated, so that's not a useful metric to use as a comparison to wholesale bandwidth costs. At scale means purchasing bandwidth in quantities of 100G. You'd be surprised how straightforward it is to get reasonable wholesale bandwidth rates almost anywhere once you cross a certain monthly spend threshold. As to the 95th percentile thing, sure, if you've already used up your "free" burst capacity, pushing a further 300 Mbps for a day will push you over the limit.
- welterde 6y agoAmazon, GCP, etc. transit are completely disconnected from reality. Those sub-$0.5/Mbps you can probably get in most big metros across the US and Europe if the connection point is on-net for the ISP in question. And if you are a residential ISP you can probably handle 80% of your traffic by peering at a few internet exchanges (google,youtube, netflix, etc.)..