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Re:GPUs Are Now Available for Google Compute Engine and Clou... by kijiki on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @04:28AM (#13704288)
> How come is the difference that big ?

To a first approximation, CPU and RAM are required to get your site up and running at all. Bandwidth is less so. Bandwidth scales up as your growth scales up.

So it makes sense for cloud providers to make CPU and RAM relatively cheap, and charge unreasonable prices for bandwidth. If you're growing, you're more inclined to pay, since you're seeing success. Plus you're already locked in at that point.

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Re:GPUs Are Now Available for Google Compute Engine and Clou... by bsaul on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @06:54AM (#13704825)
That depends a lot on your cpu / bandwidth ratio. A modern website consume a lot more cpu per request than an online videogame server (my use case), which is basically the equivalent of a websocket router with a little data transformation in the middle.
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