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Yes, the prices were a bit high. They're very regional (and depend on what carriers are at a given site, etc), so I was trying to give a decent average, erring
by brk 18y ago
Yes, the prices were a bit high. They're very regional (and depend on what carriers are at a given site, etc), so I was trying to give a decent average, erring towards worst case (my own prices in MA are a good bit lower, but I'm not trying to troll for customers on HN).
Good point on the CDN, "streaming" can sometimes be non-CDN compatible (although "CDN" is a wide ranging term).
Were it me, I'd start with an $800 1U box in a decent colo somewhere. Add another one on the opposite coast when the first started to get above 50% utilization and then scale from there.
- Retric 18y agoGoing colo can be worth it when you need serious hardware but for 800$ / month you can pick up: Four of these: Xeon 3210 - SATA 250 GB IDE/SATA HDD 2 GB 2000 GB 5 IPs $199.00 Or one of these ~Dual Xeon 2.8, 8 x 300 GB 10K RPM SCSI/SAS HDD 2 x 73 GB 10K RPM SCSI/SAS HDD 8 GB RAM 3000 GB Bandwidth 5 IPs $799.00 Which can take a lot of traffic. IMO Colo is great when you want to use lots of heavy duty HW and little bandwidth but for front end web servers you need a lot of traffic before it's reasonable.