| > If we decide to not extend it, users will incur .01/GB in all DO regions which is one of the most competitive bw fees in the industry. Hardly. Maybe if you're comparing yourself to the ridiculous prices of AWS, GCP or Azure but definitely not if you look at the rest of the industry. I can get, assuming bandwidth is kept at a sub-optimal 10% utilization (which should definitely be optimizable by scaling your instances): - Unlimited traffic with a 250Mbit/s port from OVH for $32/month, which comes to $0.003/GB - Unlimited traffic with a 400Mbit/s port from Scaleway for 16 EUR/month, which comes to $0.0013/GB - Overage traffic on any plan from Hetzner for 0.001 EUR/GB. And then there are the Bandwidth Alliance members who give free egress to CloudFlare, which then charges nothing to most users: Data Space, Dreamhost managed hosting, Linode, Packet.net and Vapor. If you need even more traffic, you can start to buy transit, which is dirt cheap. Bandwidth costs are the number one reason I won't even look at most cloud providers. |
You are stating that as if DO is not a member.
[1]https://www.cloudflare.com/bandwidth-alliance/digitalocean/