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Re:Why Dropbox decided to build its own infrastructure and n... by toomuchtodo on Friday September 15, 2017 @10:16PM (#15262431)
Any colo or dedicated server provider.
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Re:Why Dropbox decided to build its own infrastructure and n... by jimktrains2 on Friday September 15, 2017 @10:32PM (#15262496)
At a CoLo I have the rack, managment, and hardware overhead too, though? Also fewer PoP.

EDIT: I guess I was talking about CloudFront specifically, not EC2. EC2 is pretty pricey.

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Re:Why Dropbox decided to build its own infrastructure and n... by toomuchtodo on Friday September 15, 2017 @10:35PM (#15262510)
Price compare various CDNs. It's a commodity business. Fastly comes to mind, but we had quite a few outages with them at my last org.
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