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"Free" or "Unlimited" bandwidth always feels worse to me than charging the appropriate amount as you know there's a limit somewhere. No such thing as unlimited
by dewey 6y ago
"Free" or "Unlimited" bandwidth always feels worse to me than charging the appropriate amount as you know there's a limit somewhere. No such thing as unlimited bandwidth.
- diggan 6y agoI agree with charging the "appropriate amount", but that's not what AWS and the other hosting providers are offering though. They are offering you a price that is vastly different than what it actually costs. Instead hosts like Hetzner and OVH uses a price closer to the true cost for bandwidth for their users. Take a look at their dedicated hosting and the pricing. I'm not sponsored by either, but I am a happy user of Hetzner. Check out this talk by Kyle Drake that goes more into the details of bandwidth costs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-i6wvix6buI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-i6wvix6buI
- dewey 6y agoAgreed on the bandwidth costs from GCP/AWS. I’m a happy customer of OVH for a decade already and their pricing seems closer to reality.
- progval 6y agoI've been renting servers at Scaleway Dedibox (formerly Online.net) for years, with free unlimited bandwidth. I can be pretty bandwidth-intensive for a few weeks at a time (eg. rebalancing a storage cluster) and never had any trouble.
- dewey 6y agoI’m more thinking about /r/datahorders-like behavior, going over the limit for a few weeks is probably not going to bother anyone.
- naniwaduni 6y agoPaying for "unlimited" data transfer no real detail on the bandwidth is pretty bad. Unmetered bandwidth is reasonably real.