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Where's he colocating those servers? Last time I dabbled with colocation, the bandwidth costs per-server were by far the dominant cost. I found it difficult t
by rdw 14y ago
Where's he colocating those servers? Last time I dabbled with colocation, the bandwidth costs per-server were by far the dominant cost. I found it difficult to get anything at all for small quantities of servers.
Looking at he.net at the moment, I see they have a deal for $1/Mbps. Presumably someone like Jeff Atwood can get twice as good a deal as that, so he'd pay around $500/month for bandwidth for those servers. Going by the cheat sheet (https://blog.cloudvertical.com/2012/10/aws-cost-cheat-sheet-2/ https://blog.cloudvertical.com/2012/10/aws-cost-cheat-sheet-...), that is within a factor of 2 of a yearly-reserved h1.4xlarge ($2263/month * 0.47 savings = $1199). It's almost equal to the three-year reserved machine ($2263 * 0.30 = $678).
Edit: He probably only needs 1 Gbps for all 4 machines, driving his bandwidth costs down by a factor of 4, but we could start to take power/space/cooling costs into account at that point.
So is he getting a better deal than that? I'd love to know where.
- aes256 14y agoMaybe I've been out of the game too long, but $1/Mbps sounds very low. Last time I looked into it (one or two years ago) you could only get bargain bucket bandwidth approaching those prices, with fairly crumby providers. I'm assuming Amazon are a cut above that.
- rdw 14y agoYeah, $1/Mbps sounds like a steal to me as well, which may be why it's a limited-time special offer. thatamurgy's Pinboard links lead to this hosting provider: http://prgmr.com/san-jose-co-location.html http://prgmr.com/san-jose-co-location.html The machines in the original post being ~250W, they'd need the $362.50/month plan. But it's only at 10Mbps, which would only work if the application has low network requirements. Maciej appears to have gotten a much better deal, "For $206, I got 10U, 4 amps, and 100 Mbps connectivity", perhaps in exchange for promoting it through his blog. Everything's easier when you're a celebrity!
- codinghorror 14y agoA lot of colocation centers offer "unlimited" bandwidth, though I strongly suspect that may depend on whether you're running a porn site / megaupload clone or not. :) Fortunately bandwidth is one thing that has gotten substantially cheaper over time: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/02/the-economics-of-bandwidth.html http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/02/the-economics-of-ba...
- rdw 14y agoDangit, Jeff, you didn't answer my question. Share your secret colocation deals with me! :) Power is also a big cost as well. To quote the prgmr colo: "Please note; power, generally speaking, is a bigger deal than rack units. I'm more likely to let you slide on an extra rack unit than on extra watts; watts cost me real money."
- jaequery 14y agocheck out fdcservers.net, their prices are almost mind boggling for unlimited bandwidth. they now even offer 10gb unlimited in some areas.
- trin_ 14y agohetzner will colo a 1HE 100mbit for 39€. 5tb traffic.
- donavanm 14y agoRough cost for transit from top providers: US $1-5 EU $5-20 AP $20-40 Africa/china/india/mid east/etc $$$$-go eff yourself Prices are from someone like L3, qwest, ntt, telephonica. Assuming youre buying 10s or 100s of gb. Don't forget to factor in a couple routers, a bunch of 10gig optics, line cards, maybe some local loops, PMs legal & accounting staff, a bunch of NEs to run it.