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Hetzner has been an established player in Europe for a long time. It seems plausible that they have enough customers who use small amounts of bandwidth to subsi
by xmodem 2y ago
Hetzner has been an established player in Europe for a long time. It seems plausible that they have enough customers who use small amounts of bandwidth to subsidise the heavier users.
Considering switching costs, if they enter the US market with better pricing than established players, it stands to reason that the customers that would be most enticed to move will be the heavier users.
- mrgaro 2y agoEU transit costs and peering agreements are much more relaxed and cheaper than in US
- everfrustrated 2y agoEurope is also a lot smaller network wise. Hetzner only have to get their traffic to Frankfurt to get connected to practically the whole of Europe. For the US, Ashburn N.Virginia is good but it's still only a single coast.
- inemesitaffia 2y agoThey are definitely paying under 2c/TB for traffic though.
- everfrustrated 2y agoRouters, optics & interconnects aren't free. $0.01/GB is very reasonable.
- inemesitaffia 2y agoWait. That's cheaper than my CDN. Maybe I should do some shopping