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Hetzner is probably paying ~$300/mo/Gbps for their transit capacity. While I’m sure this particular account isn’t profitable for them, they’re not losing a boat
by iancarroll 4y ago
Hetzner is probably paying ~$300/mo/Gbps for their transit capacity. While I’m sure this particular account isn’t profitable for them, they’re not losing a boatload of money from it either. Hard to blame the user if they advertise it as unlimited.
- walrus01 4y agoat the size and scale of hetzner an individual 100Gbps IP transit circuit is considerably less costly than $30k a month. more like 5-6k max at a major IX point. this also ignores how much of their traffic is settlement free peering to other adjacent ISPs.
- worldofmatthew 4y agoFrom what I remember; FDC has 100Gbit/s for $4,999/month.
- walrus01 4y agofdc is not a transit provider specialist with POPs in every major global city (as measured by CAIDA ASrank size) similar to Cogent or Telia or level3, which a hosting company like hetzner might become a customer of, rather, it's a hosting company
- worldofmatthew 4y agoIts their resold transit product (their 100G Dedicated Bandwidth Servers are often cheaper).