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> In this scenario you’d also have to pay for bandwidth since that’s the variable cost here. For Google? You think Google get a monthly bill for their bandwidt
by movedx 2y ago
> In this scenario you’d also have to pay for bandwidth since that’s the variable cost here.
For Google? You think Google get a monthly bill for their bandwidth?
- simfree 2y agoMost of Google, AWS and ilks traffic is moved over settlement free peering and fixed cost infrastructure: https://www.lightreading.com/cable-technology/level-3-seals-bit-mile-peering-deal-with-google https://www.lightreading.com/cable-technology/level-3-seals-... Whether 100TB or 1500TB of data are delivered to one ISP at one peering point in a given month has minimal effect, that 10Gbps, 100Gbps or larger port is a fixed cost that will exist regardless of traffic.
- movedx 2y agoPrecisely. I used to rent dedicated servers in the early 2000s that gave me such options.