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Let's compare some costs then. As a random example, but not an unreasonable one, we have 100 1GB files stored for one year, and we want to deliver each of them

Let's compare some costs then. As a random example, but not an unreasonable one, we have 100 1GB files stored for one year, and we want to deliver each of them 10000 times. With Cloudflare R2, this will cost roughly $16. With upcloud, this will cost roughly $10,000. You see how this can easily be the difference between a business being viable and... not?

nephanth 4y ago
You're taking a specific case (low amount of data, high egress) and comparing an offer specialized for that use case (r2) with a general-purpose offer. Amazon S3, for example, would not perform better than upcloud here (I calculated $50,000), and that comparison may be more adapted. Though I agree that neither ovh nor upcloud have an offer tailored to that use (I think in that case using a CDN instead may be the more adapted). That offer may or may not exist on the EU market but I'm too lazy to search for it On a sidenote, I didn't know about r2, thanks for the tip
- fjfbsufhdvfy 4y ago
  I don't think any offer exists that competes with R2 currently, if you want to deliver large amounts of data. That's why I consider access to this service critical for business. The closest you can get is renting servers with unmetered 1-10gbit connections and serving it yourself, but because you don't have the economy of scale that Cloudflare does, it will still be much more expensive than R2. You can't balance out your costs against those of hundreds of other customers that don't serve as much data, or against customers serving data at different times where your unmetered bandwidth would be wasted. Starting up a service with pricing like R2 is only really possible at Cloudflare scale too, so it's not like it's possible for someone like us to see this gap in the market and... fix it?

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Let's compare some costs then. As a random example, but not an unreasonable one, we have 100 1GB files stored for one year, and we want to deliver each of them

by fjfbsufhdvfy 4y ago

nephanth 4y ago
You're taking a specific case (low amount of data, high egress) and comparing an offer specialized for that use case (r2) with a general-purpose offer. Amazon S3, for example, would not perform better than upcloud here (I calculated $50,000), and that comparison may be more adapted. Though I agree that neither ovh nor upcloud have an offer tailored to that use (I think in that case using a CDN instead may be the more adapted). That offer may or may not exist on the EU market but I'm too lazy to search for it On a sidenote, I didn't know about r2, thanks for the tip
- fjfbsufhdvfy 4y ago
  I don't think any offer exists that competes with R2 currently, if you want to deliver large amounts of data. That's why I consider access to this service critical for business. The closest you can get is renting servers with unmetered 1-10gbit connections and serving it yourself, but because you don't have the economy of scale that Cloudflare does, it will still be much more expensive than R2. You can't balance out your costs against those of hundreds of other customers that don't serve as much data, or against customers serving data at different times where your unmetered bandwidth would be wasted. Starting up a service with pricing like R2 is only really possible at Cloudflare scale too, so it's not like it's possible for someone like us to see this gap in the market and... fix it?