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Looks like he was paying $40/m for 2TB of bandwidth. No wonder he drew their attention. And before you give me the BW is cheap speech realise that this is abou
by anotherhue 2y ago
Looks like he was paying $40/m for 2TB of bandwidth. No wonder he drew their attention.
And before you give me the BW is cheap speech realise that this is about segmentation not IP packets.
Moving the heavier assets to a more specialised domain would have been trivial.
- Spivak 2y ago2TB of bandwidth is $7/mo on AWS Lightsail. You can argue market segmentation but surely the bar for "enterprise" pricing should be something with enterprise costs. I as the sole user of my VPS can hit 2TB of bandwidth a month easily, it's just not that much. When AWS, the company known for price gouging for bandwidth, sells for 1/1000 the cost the problem might you.
- anotherhue 2y agoIf lightsail was comparable Webflow wouldn't have a business. It's like saying a Bentley and a lawnmover are the same because they both require fuel. The segmentation is, and has always been, based not on underlying costs, but on an understanding of what the segment can bear.
- _kzxr 2y agoBut the person you're responding to is comparing the fuel (bandwidth) and not the vehicles.
- gruez 2y ago>2TB of bandwidth is $7/mo on AWS Lightsail. [...] >When AWS, the company known for price gouging for bandwidth, sells for 1/1000 the cost the problem might you. That's a slightly misleading thing to say when lightsail is specifically their low-end offering, designed to compete with other low cost VPS providers like linode or digital ocean. When people are complaining about AWS "price gouging" for bandwidth, they're talking about the $0.09/GB[1], or $180 for 2TB. [1] https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/ https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/
- k4rli 2y agoHe said "up from $468" not $40.
- gruez 2y agoHe said: >They're forcing me to pay $15,000/year, up from $468! $468/year = 39/month