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The Hidden Cost of the Cloud: Bandwidth Charges
- lsc 17y agowait, they charge many times over what it costs to co-lo your hardware, then they charge what is a fairly reasonable per-gigabyte transfer (well, fairly reasonable if you don't use much. Often co-location providers will charge you north of $60 per Mbps if you are buying less than 10Mbps; usually it's closer to $10 per Mbps if you buy 100Mbps or so.) and you say the bandwidth is the hidden cost? wait, what?
- jacquesm 17y agoIt's not exactly hidden, but it is where they make the money. If you're compute bound and lean on bandwidth you stand a chance in the cloud. If you're pushing tons of data with little or no computation (say piles of files) the cloud is not for you.