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You can't compare Hetzner boxes with CDNs. Imagine someone trying to stream a 4K video from your Hetzner box in Finland to Australia. Not the same as directly f
by ugjka 5y ago
You can't compare Hetzner boxes with CDNs. Imagine someone trying to stream a 4K video from your Hetzner box in Finland to Australia. Not the same as directly from local CDN node
- smileybarry 5y agoNot the same, but I wanted to present the counter-point that bandwidth in general is not as expensive as AWS and such make it out to be. Hetzner is an extreme counter-example but I thought that just using CloudFront's pricing in this thread is misleading as well.
- iamevn 5y agoHow so? What's a few hundred extra milleseconds for packets to transfer when you're streaming video with many seconds of buffer time?
- ugjka 5y agoThat is a very idealistic view of networking
- Aeolun 5y agoYou can do it as easily with a bunch of cloudflare boxes hosted at strategic points around the globe.