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Yes, but for example a 10Gbit/s pipe is about 3PB of transfer capacity per month which is about 150 000$/month in S3 traffic. A 40kW UPS which can handle about
by kuon 2y ago
Yes, but for example a 10Gbit/s pipe is about 3PB of transfer capacity per month which is about 150 000$/month in S3 traffic. A 40kW UPS which can handle about 2 racks (2x42U) of high density servers, with a generator cost about 50k$. A redundant link with your own AS so you can BGP should cost about 5k$ per month (at least here in switzerland).
Of course it really depends on the application, but if you host something like a streaming video service where bandwidth is the main factor, you can quickly reach a point where self hosting is cheaper.
- viraptor 2y ago10Gbps is one "teen with a stolen credit card" DDoS event away from being unusable. If you're running a big service that someone may dislike, that's really not enough.
- bobdvb 2y agoThat's why you put your services behind a CDN, even if it's not cacheable traffic. Then you can rate limit what's coming to you. With the cloud, that DDoS can bankrupt you by causing you unconstrained bills instead.
- viraptor 2y agoOh definitely. I would've been more clear - I meant: you still can't stop there and you'll need a third-party to take the traffic with either solution.
- maccard 2y agoAs you’ve already alluded to elsewhere though - you host it behind a cdn or something. A single ec2 instance is just as vulnerable to a teen with a stolen credit card attack.