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Re:$5 Showdown: Linode vs. DigitalOcean vs. Amazon Lightsail... by kyledrake on Sunday February 19, 2017 @10:29AM (#13680126)
> Well, you're obviously costing them money.

AWS and Google Cloud want people to think that, so that they can keep selling people McDonalds and charging Michelin prices for it.

Market-rate quality bandwidth is closer to $0.005-$0.015/GB. That's with peering to eyeball ISPs like Comcast and everything. Don't believe me, go to Voxility and crunch the numbers yourself.

Their marketing guys say about it what they're going to say. But under the hood, you tell me if you're getting something different:

http://bgp.he.net/AS20473#_asinfo http://bgp.he.net/AS16509#_asinfo http://bgp.he.net/AS63949#_asinfo

Oh BTW, DigitalOcean's site just resolves to a Cloudflare controlled IP. If they can't successfully run their own servers on their own network, I won't either. You can have a different opinion here, but that's mine. I like to see my ISPs eating their own dog food.

Re:$5 Showdown: Linode vs. DigitalOcean vs. Amazon Lightsail... by hyperpape on Sunday February 19, 2017 @11:54AM (#13680560)
At $.005/GB, 20TB is still $100.

That said, they are a business, and it's their job to make their bandwidth policies clear and enforce them. Either they're ok with a few users using tons of bandwidth or they can't be bothered to put in place a clear policy. Either way, it's not the user's problem.

Re:$5 Showdown: Linode vs. DigitalOcean vs. Amazon Lightsail... by corobo on Sunday February 19, 2017 @04:36PM (#13682144)

  How much bandwidth do you provide? What is the transfer limit?

  Your server comes with between 200Mbit/s and 800Mbit/s
  of internet bandwidth depending of your server. Checkout
  the pricing page to find the exact value. The internal
  bandwidth is only limited by the speed of your network card.

  There is no transfer limit, transfer is unlimited.
https://www.scaleway.com/faq/server/network/

That's the bandwidth policy. I've never had them crack down on me using the bandwidth I'm paying for, never heard anyone else say they've had a problem either

Re:$5 Showdown: Linode vs. DigitalOcean vs. Amazon Lightsail... by corobo on Monday February 20, 2017 @10:13AM (#13687895)
> I like to see my ISPs eating their own dog food.

I have to disagree in part here - No matter what is going on with the ISPs networking etc I want to be able to see status updates. Hosting off-network is great for this.

In DigitalOcean's case they can of course use multiple of their own regions I suppose, but if Cloudflare does the job the box is ticked for me

Re:$5 Showdown: Linode vs. DigitalOcean vs. Amazon Lightsail... by closeparen on Monday February 20, 2017 @09:54PM (#13692877)
I don't like to see my ISPs eating their own dog food, because I like my ISPs to be capable of communicating during outages.
Re:$5 Showdown: Linode vs. DigitalOcean vs. Amazon Lightsail... by kyledrake on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @08:26AM (#13695220)
I don't care if their status page is off-network, I care if their main web site is. Isn't that just obvious?
Re:$5 Showdown: Linode vs. DigitalOcean vs. Amazon Lightsail... by simplehuman on Sunday February 19, 2017 @11:41AM (#13680488)
DO DNS is also powered by cloudflare
Re:$5 Showdown: Linode vs. DigitalOcean vs. Amazon Lightsail... by tbrowbdidnso on Sunday February 19, 2017 @11:47AM (#13680524)
If I remember right cloudflare outsources theit DNS to someone else as well, can't remember who
Re:$5 Showdown: Linode vs. DigitalOcean vs. Amazon Lightsail... by manigandham on Monday February 20, 2017 @05:55PM (#13691789)
Cloudflare's entire business is running their own edge network which combines DNS + CDN + WAF + DDOS protection. They don't outsource this.
Re:$5 Showdown: Linode vs. DigitalOcean vs. Amazon Lightsail... by homero on Sunday February 19, 2017 @02:24PM (#13681408)
No they take outsourcing