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$ 5000 seems way too much. 50 TB of traffic would cost something like $ 200 (if all downloads were from the US or Europe) to $ 450 (if all of were from South A

$ 5000 seems way too much. 50 TB of traffic would cost something like $ 200 (if all downloads were from the US or Europe) to $ 450 (if all of were from South America) according to this page: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/?navclick=true#pricing https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/?navclick=true#pricing That's still a lot of money, of course.

josephlord 13y ago
Can you recheck your maths? It is $0.08/GB (to Internet in the US 10-50TB volume price) not $0.0008/GB 1000 GB == 1TB $0.08 * 50 * 1000 = $4,000 Or have I missed something?
- michaelt 13y ago
  According to [1] there were 1,425,722 downloads of gimp-2.8.6-setup.exe from SourceForge last month. According to [2] that file is 90.1 megabytes So that one file used 122.5 TB of bandwidth in that month. Assume for the purposes of argument this is 100% from the US and follows the cloudfront pricing outlined at [3], and per-request costs are trivial. (10 terabytes) * (0.120 US$ per gigabyte) + (40 terabytes) * (0.080 US$ per gigabyte) + ((122.5-50) terabytes) * (0.060 US$ per gigabyte) in US$ = 8960 US$ [4] So, for that single file, about US$ 9000 a month. It gets more expensive if people download from other countries, and 22% of downloads were for different files not included in the download count for the most popular file, which I used above. It would be trivial to top $12,000 a month in cloudfront fees. [1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-win/files/GIMP%20%2B%20GTK%2B%20%28stable%20release%29/GIMP%202.8.6/gimp-2.8.6-setup.exe/stats/timeline?dates=2013-10-01+to+2013-11-09 http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-win/files/GIMP%20%2B%20... [2] http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-win/files/GIMP%20%2B%20GTK%2B%20%28stable%20release%29/GIMP%202.8.6/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-win/files/GIMP%20%2B%20... [3] https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/#pricing https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/#pricing [4] https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=(10+terabytes)+*+(0.120+US%24+per+gigabyte)+%2B+(40+terabytes)+*+(0.080+US%24+per+gigabyte)+%2B+((122.5-50)+terabytes)+*+(0.060+US%24+per+gigabyte)+in+US%24 https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=(10+terabytes)+*+(0.120+US...

josephlord 13y ago

Can you recheck your maths? It is $0.08/GB (to Internet in the US 10-50TB volume price) not $0.0008/GB 1000 GB == 1TB $0.08 * 50 * 1000 = $4,000 Or have I missed something?

michaelt 13y ago
According to [1] there were 1,425,722 downloads of gimp-2.8.6-setup.exe from SourceForge last month. According to [2] that file is 90.1 megabytes So that one file used 122.5 TB of bandwidth in that month. Assume for the purposes of argument this is 100% from the US and follows the cloudfront pricing outlined at [3], and per-request costs are trivial. (10 terabytes) * (0.120 US$ per gigabyte) + (40 terabytes) * (0.080 US$ per gigabyte) + ((122.5-50) terabytes) * (0.060 US$ per gigabyte) in US$ = 8960 US$ [4] So, for that single file, about US$ 9000 a month. It gets more expensive if people download from other countries, and 22% of downloads were for different files not included in the download count for the most popular file, which I used above. It would be trivial to top $12,000 a month in cloudfront fees. [1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-win/files/GIMP%20%2B%20GTK%2B%20%28stable%20release%29/GIMP%202.8.6/gimp-2.8.6-setup.exe/stats/timeline?dates=2013-10-01+to+2013-11-09 http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-win/files/GIMP%20%2B%20... [2] http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-win/files/GIMP%20%2B%20GTK%2B%20%28stable%20release%29/GIMP%202.8.6/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-win/files/GIMP%20%2B%20... [3] https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/#pricing https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/#pricing [4] https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=(10+terabytes)+*+(0.120+US%24+per+gigabyte)+%2B+(40+terabytes)+*+(0.080+US%24+per+gigabyte)+%2B+((122.5-50)+terabytes)+*+(0.060+US%24+per+gigabyte)+in+US%24 https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=(10+terabytes)+*+(0.120+US...