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So you want to build your own data center

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261 points dban | 2 comments | 17 Jan 25 20:41 UTC | HN request time: 0.433s | source
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cyberax ◴[18 Jan 25 01:45 UTC] No.42745042[source]▶
It looked interesting, until I got to the egress cost. Ouch. $100 per TB is way too much if you're using bandwidth-intensive apps.

Meta-comment: it's getting really hard to find hosting services that provide true unlimited bandwidth. I want to do video upload/download in our app, and I'm struggling to find providers of managed servers that would be willing to provide me with fixed price for 10/100GB ports.

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1. justjake ◴[18 Jan 25 01:49 UTC] No.42745066[source]▶
FWIW, we just pass the costs on from the current cloud providers. Doing this work will let us lower those egress prices!
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2. cyberax ◴[18 Jan 25 03:25 UTC] No.42745533[source]▶
Yeah. Cloud providers are the worst. Their egress costs moved from "expensive but not unreasonable" circa 2010, to "what the fuck" territory now.

A 10G port should be in the range of $2k per month, I believe? I don't mind paying that much.