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by jlgaddis 4512 days ago
> ... a bit more than half of the total cost for each alternative is for bandwidth/data transfer charges ($35,144 for self-hosted at $8/Mbps and $36,900 for AWS).

If you're buying ~5 Gbps and paying $8/Mbps for it, please please please get in touch with me. I will sell it to you for $6/Mbps and save you 25% off the top! :-)
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druiid 4512 days ago
About $5/Mbps here! It seems like you can get some pretty good deals if you find a newish data-center. Internap has been building out like crazy recently and gave us a great deal on bandwidth. I remember the days of potentially hundreds of dollars per Megabit!

Edit: Expanded my comment.. this isn't fark.com

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vonmoltke 4512 days ago
I have a single-server colo at a local datacenter here in Dallas[1] for $49 total (with 10Mbps). Same datacenter will give you 2Gbps to a half or full rack for $1900/mo.

[1] http://www.colounlimited.com/

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waps 4512 days ago
At 5 Gbps order size, if you're paying more than $0.9/Mbps you're getting screwed.
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