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> Wholesale IP transit prices are anywhere from 10 cents to a dollar per Mbps depending on volume. 10 cents is far from the lower end for high quality IP trans
by NorwegianDude 5y ago
> Wholesale IP transit prices are anywhere from 10 cents to a dollar per Mbps depending on volume.
10 cents is far from the lower end for high quality IP transit.
Cloudflare doesn't pay anywhere near $14.70/mo for 80 TB/mo. Even I spend much less than that on 80 TB in a month. On top of that, peering makes it even cheaper for Cloudflare, as you said. Cloudflare is very likely using peering for much more than 40 % of the traffic now, so it's even cheaper for them.
The worst peering region for Cloudflare was North America in 2016 with 40 % peering according to Cloudflare blog posts.
- mike_d 5y agoI was conservative in my estimates for IP transit because I don't know what CF pays, but the numbers only get better for them.
- qeternity 5y agoCloudflare might not pay that on a per TB basis, but where are you getting 10 gige transit for under $1k??
- smilliken 5y agoMarket rate for a 10gbps port is now less than $1k/mo
- bryans 5y agoLinode offers a 50 dCPU with 10Gbps out for $960. Or if you just need the bandwidth and don't need the CPU power, you can combine three $30 servers with 4Gbps each, and put them behind a $10 load balancer, for a total of 12Gbps out at $100/mo. https://www.linode.com/pricing/ https://www.linode.com/pricing/
- cbg0 5y agoPlenty of providers, depending on how many 10G/40G links you're willing to buy, check out https://blog.telegeography.com/global-ip-transit-prices-decline-pandemic-covid19 https://blog.telegeography.com/global-ip-transit-prices-decl... to see how much prices have gone down.