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> There also is Hetzner and their dedicated servers. You pay for a server with a 1Gb/s connection and all egress is free. There's also OVH and they have things
by TacticalCoder 3y ago
> There also is Hetzner and their dedicated servers. You pay for a server with a 1Gb/s connection and all egress is free.
There's also OVH and they have things like 1 Gbit/s guaranteed, up to 5 Gbit/s (not guaranteed) EPYC 7313 servers with 25,50 or 100 Gbit/s guaranteed private (from OVH servers to OVH servers) for... 200 EUR / month.
Re-using the example from TFA, you could max the bandwith of such a server 24/7, be "downgraded" from 5 Gbit/s to 1 Gbit/s guaranteed and yet it'd cost you... 200 EUR/month.
Versus hundreds of thousands of egress bill in the cloud.
200 EUR / month vs hundred of thousands.
But yay. Go cloud!
- tutfbhuf 3y agoCombine the two. Set up a large nginx reverse proxy with cache on the 200 EUR/month machine in Hetzner or OVH and serve 99.9% of the traffic from this location (js, css, images, videos, etc.). Use the cloud for convenience in managing the complex parts in the backend.
- tiernano 3y agoWhy not just go Cloudflare then? In our sites, most of what Cloudflare caches is js, cs, images, etc...