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by VWWHFSfQ 1668 days ago
what do bare metal providers charge
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Just as an example: Hetzner's dedicated servers, which start around US$30/month, come with unlimited 1gbit connections (really unlimited, not "unlimited until we decide to throttle you").

If you max out that connection non-stop, you can push about 330 TB/month. The same amount of bandwidth from EC2 would cost roughly US$20,000.

Dedicated servers from Hetzner and OVH is what I use. Very sweet deals they have.
Are you actually able to max that out to all network peers? Have you measured this? That sounds fantastic.
No direct experience with Hetzner but for DataPacket, OVH, and FDCservers the answer is yes.

These companies are still pretty profitable.

If you colocate your own hardware you can go even lower than the bare metal hosts.

https://www.hetzner.com/cloud gives you 20TB free bandwidth a month for all its servers, including its €3.49/mo VMs.

They also offer comparatively much cheaper hardware, which is why I've been using them for all my heavy workloads for 8+ years.

Most are unlimited. But the ones where you have an actual bandwidth cap, it comes out at less than $5/TB (if we're including the machine itself), the bandwidth itself, probably less than $1/TB
Some bare metal providers have allocation based on server provisioning rather than specific egress limits. But CloudFront is cheaper with commit pricing because CF commit pricing is very very cheap and you have to factor in the cost of said reverse proxy nodes and only so much can be delivered per node. As you factor in management of the nodes it becomes even more favorable to the hyper scaler like CloudFront.

I have seen large scale deals where CloudFront comes in cheaper than what the smaller CDNs built on bare mantel can reasonably offer even with sizable commits.

Go to datapacket.com or hetzner.com for examples.

VPS providers like Vultr and Digital Ocean are a bit more but still a lot cheaper than the big three.

Bandwidth prices at the big clouds are ludicrously high.

$500/mo unlimited egress
These are not real numbers. I've tried the "free" and "unlimited" providers. They will drop you if you take them up on their offers.
Damn that is wild when you just look at the absolute figures. Really? Where? Hetzner or some other bare metal provider?