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Are outgoing bandwidth costs ever going to drop? It just seems crazy that DigitalOcean can provide you 1TB of bandwidth in their $5 plan while 1TB on AWS ($0.12

Are outgoing bandwidth costs ever going to drop? It just seems crazy that DigitalOcean can provide you 1TB of bandwidth in their $5 plan while 1TB on AWS ($0.12/GB) is $122.76 (first GB is free).

paukiatwee 13y ago
Not everyone will use ALL 1TB. So DO will able to save some bandwidth.
- ddorian43 13y ago
  But will you use 1TB on the 16GB ram plan? If yes then you just saved 40% of the bill. They will also make it later so all your nodes'bandwidth is cumulative.(like linode has)
  - Kudos 13y ago
    > They will also make it later so all your nodes'bandwidth is cumulative.(like linode has) Source? I've been told that that isn't the case by their support.
  - ddorian43 13y ago
    https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/bandwidth-pooling https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/bandwidth-p... https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/bandwidth-pooling--2 https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/bandwidth-p... Some say yes, some say no.
matthewmacleod 13y ago
I'm almost certain that while DO currently offer 1TB for $5, they actually can't offer that in the long term. Or rather, they are relying on less usage than this, and if all of their customers were actually utilising it, they'd have to jack up prices.
- bluedino 13y ago
  Dreamhost had a blog article about overselling or oversubscribing - it's very common from ISP's to gyms. http://www.dreamhost.com/dreamscape/2006/05/18/the-truth-about-overselling/ http://www.dreamhost.com/dreamscape/2006/05/18/the-truth-abo...
ghshephard 13y ago
Transit costs an ISP (who buys 40+ gigabit circuits) about $1/megabit @ 95th percentile. 1 Terabyte is about 3 megabits/second fully loaded for a month - So, presuming that DO has to pay for their pipe, that 1 TB costs them $3. Amazon is probably charging a bit much, but DO's costs are probably unsustainable if people actually used their 1TB (much like any service that offers people a "huge amount" with the hope that nobody actually uses it.
- Retric 13y ago
  Or they plan on overages. They charge '$0.02 per GB thereafter' which works out to 20$ per TB so they break-even on bandwidth at ~1.2TB. Sure, some people can get vary close to 1TB without going over but for most people it's hard to manage bandwidth that exactly.
- bluedino 13y ago
  Exactly how Dreamhost/Hostgator can offer 'unlimited diskspace/bandwidth/puppies' for $6 a month or whatever.
  - pgrote 13y ago
    Two ways: 1) They oversell their capacity. 2) Their terms of service agreement prohibit anything that would actually let you us unlimited. http://webmasterfaqs.org/is-unlimited-web-hosting-a-scam/ http://webmasterfaqs.org/is-unlimited-web-hosting-a-scam/
    - smackfu 13y ago
      Yeah. Dreamhost kindly asked me to switch to their VPS service a few years ago when I was using too much CPU.
- marquis 13y ago
  I have about 15 droplets on DO right now and none of them are close to using a TB even over a year (but we don't use them for production). I'd bet they are banking on this for most cases. I checked out Verizon's new cloud beta yesterday, and while they haven't announced pricing maybe they can do a good deal on bandwidth given that they own so much of the network.

Are outgoing bandwidth costs ever going to drop? It just seems crazy that DigitalOcean can provide you 1TB of bandwidth in their $5 plan while 1TB on AWS ($0.12/GB) is $122.76 (first GB is free).

paukiatwee 13y ago

Not everyone will use ALL 1TB. So DO will able to save some bandwidth.

ddorian43 13y ago
But will you use 1TB on the 16GB ram plan? If yes then you just saved 40% of the bill. They will also make it later so all your nodes'bandwidth is cumulative.(like linode has)
- Kudos 13y ago
  > They will also make it later so all your nodes'bandwidth is cumulative.(like linode has) Source? I've been told that that isn't the case by their support.
- ddorian43 13y ago
  https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/bandwidth-pooling https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/bandwidth-p... https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/bandwidth-pooling--2 https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/bandwidth-p... Some say yes, some say no.

matthewmacleod 13y ago

I'm almost certain that while DO currently offer 1TB for $5, they actually can't offer that in the long term. Or rather, they are relying on less usage than this, and if all of their customers were actually utilising it, they'd have to jack up prices.

bluedino 13y ago
Dreamhost had a blog article about overselling or oversubscribing - it's very common from ISP's to gyms. http://www.dreamhost.com/dreamscape/2006/05/18/the-truth-about-overselling/ http://www.dreamhost.com/dreamscape/2006/05/18/the-truth-abo...

ghshephard 13y ago

Transit costs an ISP (who buys 40+ gigabit circuits) about $1/megabit @ 95th percentile. 1 Terabyte is about 3 megabits/second fully loaded for a month - So, presuming that DO has to pay for their pipe, that 1 TB costs them $3. Amazon is probably charging a bit much, but DO's costs are probably unsustainable if people actually used their 1TB (much like any service that offers people a "huge amount" with the hope that nobody actually uses it.

Retric 13y ago
Or they plan on overages. They charge '$0.02 per GB thereafter' which works out to 20$ per TB so they break-even on bandwidth at ~1.2TB. Sure, some people can get vary close to 1TB without going over but for most people it's hard to manage bandwidth that exactly.
bluedino 13y ago
Exactly how Dreamhost/Hostgator can offer 'unlimited diskspace/bandwidth/puppies' for $6 a month or whatever.
- pgrote 13y ago
  Two ways: 1) They oversell their capacity. 2) Their terms of service agreement prohibit anything that would actually let you us unlimited. http://webmasterfaqs.org/is-unlimited-web-hosting-a-scam/ http://webmasterfaqs.org/is-unlimited-web-hosting-a-scam/
  - smackfu 13y ago
    Yeah. Dreamhost kindly asked me to switch to their VPS service a few years ago when I was using too much CPU.
marquis 13y ago
I have about 15 droplets on DO right now and none of them are close to using a TB even over a year (but we don't use them for production). I'd bet they are banking on this for most cases. I checked out Verizon's new cloud beta yesterday, and while they haven't announced pricing maybe they can do a good deal on bandwidth given that they own so much of the network.