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Re:Why Dropbox decided to build its own infrastructure and n... by dasil003 on Saturday September 16, 2017 @01:28AM (#15263064)
I built a global video CDN using SoftLayer a couple years ago and ended up paying around $0.01/GB.
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Re:Why Dropbox decided to build its own infrastructure and n... by jimktrains2 on Saturday September 16, 2017 @11:06AM (#15264947)
How? https://www.ibm.com/cloud-computing/bluemix/content-delivery... (which is linked to from http://www.softlayer.com/) says $0.12/GB.

https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/pricing/ says $0.085/GB.

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Re:Why Dropbox decided to build its own infrastructure and n... by dasil003 on Saturday September 16, 2017 @04:27PM (#15266574)
At the time they included 20TB of traffic per month per server, and it went into regional pools. I think they discontinued that because of us :)
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