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> That's why the _Peer_ sets the price for his service. But that breaks the economics of this, no? If you're in the US and charge $6/TB and I'm in Germany and

> That's why the _Peer_ sets the price for his service. But that breaks the economics of this, no? If you're in the US and charge $6/TB and I'm in Germany and charge $100/TB, why would traffic ever go to my server? If your US server gets overloaded, am I now making $100/TB? How does the network ensure that this is both fair and competitive? Moreover, how can a customer know that they're not going to get a surprise bill for an order of magnitude more than they planned for?

solidsnack9000 4y ago
If someone wants to serve traffic from a peer in Germany, then they will pay you. What they are paying for with a global CDN is ultimately location.
- bastawhiz 4y ago
  That's the point though: not every peer can have all content, it's not a data center with a massive cache. So what's stopping me from using FUSE to make it seem like I've got petabytes of storage and throw the data in S3? Now, I never evict anything from the cache. My node is going to be far more likely to be the closest node to any given user. And so I jack up my price. There's many variables, but the important ones for choosing a peer are cost and latency/distance. What conditions do you have for choosing far-but-cheap versus near-but-pricey? You can't simply choose peers randomly or round robin because I could just set my prices through the roof and pick up a massive paycheck.
  - solidsnack9000 4y ago
    I'm not sure I understand your thinking, here. You will set a higher price than others and win bids relative to them, somehow? In markets, generally, providers are not chosen randomly or round-robin; they are chosen based on the balance of cost and what is offered.
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mranton 4y ago
A customer can switch on/off regions. Also, they can set up a cap for every region. You can do it with regular CDNs as well, it's just a setting.

solidsnack9000 4y ago

If someone wants to serve traffic from a peer in Germany, then they will pay you. What they are paying for with a global CDN is ultimately location.

bastawhiz 4y ago
That's the point though: not every peer can have all content, it's not a data center with a massive cache. So what's stopping me from using FUSE to make it seem like I've got petabytes of storage and throw the data in S3? Now, I never evict anything from the cache. My node is going to be far more likely to be the closest node to any given user. And so I jack up my price. There's many variables, but the important ones for choosing a peer are cost and latency/distance. What conditions do you have for choosing far-but-cheap versus near-but-pricey? You can't simply choose peers randomly or round robin because I could just set my prices through the roof and pick up a massive paycheck.
- solidsnack9000 4y ago
  I'm not sure I understand your thinking, here. You will set a higher price than others and win bids relative to them, somehow? In markets, generally, providers are not chosen randomly or round-robin; they are chosen based on the balance of cost and what is offered.

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mranton 4y ago

A customer can switch on/off regions. Also, they can set up a cap for every region. You can do it with regular CDNs as well, it's just a setting.