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Re:Introducing Network Service Tiers by fabian2k on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @01:18PM (#15083303)
The extremely high egress prices for any cloud don't seem to have hurt their popularity much so far. So I suspect they all don't want to give up their cash cow.

Compared to a VPS or renting a dedicated servers, the egress costs can be enormous if you come even close to using the traffic contingent you get with many VPS or dedicated hosts.

Just as a comparison, a dedicated server with Hetzner for ~50-70 EUR per month includes 30 TB of traffic, which would be at least 2,400 EUR on the Google Cloud.

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Re:Introducing Network Service Tiers by notyourday on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @02:59PM (#15084145)
Just put the edges somewhere else, use GCP for compute and push the actual delivery to the edge.
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Re:Introducing Network Service Tiers by posguy on Thursday August 24, 2017 @12:25AM (#15087588)
Huh? VPS and dedicated hosts usually charge below a penny per gigabyte over your traffic limit, and if you open a support ticket they will usually work with you towards something in the sub-$4 per TB range.
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