4 ms·
Searching for terms like "wholesale bandwidth transit" might be a better reference for comparison of actual cost. The providers you mention are depending somew
by tyingq 3y ago
Searching for terms like "wholesale bandwidth transit" might be a better reference for comparison of actual cost. The providers you mention are depending somewhat on customers that statistically underutilize what they have and using obscure TOS clauses to chase away heavy users.
- api 3y agoThat's the list price. You don't pay the list price if you purchase at high volume. Bare metal and VPS providers are surely very high volume customers. This is perhaps an argument against pure DIY colo, but most small scale colo isn't connected "naked" to the Internet but gets racked in a data center that offers a bandwidth package and does peering for you. The only people who peer directly tend to be clouds, bare metal hosts, CDNs, and ISPs. Even if you have your own IP space and an ASN you are usually behind someone who is bulk purchasing transit and handling peering. To be fair very large customers can negotiate costs down at cloud providers too, but you have to be spending tens of thousands a month to even have a chance at getting their attention for any kind of special deal.
- buggeryorkshire 3y agoCompany I used to work for had an AWS bill at 7 figures and sometimes 8 (a very time based offering) AFAICT we had a blanket 20% off the bill, nothing special about egress.
- tyingq 3y agoIt's probably the closest proxy for which you can get meaningful numbers.