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Dropbox must be super happy that half their bandwidth costs have disappeared!
by orijing 15y ago
Dropbox must be super happy that half their bandwidth costs have disappeared!
- Pahalial 15y agoThis might be very related, actually - Dropbox just sent out an email announcing downtime for a move to a different data center.
- icebraining 15y agoAlso, backup solutions based on S3. Most of their traffic is inbound.
- cperciva 15y agoAbout 90% of Tarsnap's bandwidth is inbound... but most of Tarsnap's AWS costs are for storage, not bandwidth. Backup services tend to store a lot of cold data.
- nuclear_eclipse 15y agoAs a Tarsnap customer, would this allow you to stop charging on sending data to Tarsnap, or does that still cost you somewhere in the lineup?
- cperciva 15y agoTarsnap's upload costs cover the actual bandwith costs, the per-operation cost of S3 PUTs, the SimpleDB operations for checking account balances, some data storage (when you delete data, you stop paying for it; but I pay until the garbage collection job reaps those blocks)... there are lots of costs. The bandwidth was a significant part of it, though. I need to crunch some numbers and see how the economics work out before I can commit to anything, but I'm certainly looking at adjusting the pricing.
- nuclear_eclipse 15y agoI assumed there was more to it than just bandwidth costs, just wanted to get an official answer. Thanks.
- cperciva 15y agoUpload is probably much less than half of dropbox's bandwidth. If multiple users have the same file, it only needs to be uploaded once; but it needs to be downloaded every time someone syncs a directory containing it to a new machine.