Yes Digital Ocean / Linode bandwidth is 40x cheaper than AWS. Amazon also charges extra for a support plan so you can open a ticket, and inform them of their bugs. And we have found bugs in AWS infrastructure that still remains unfixed, because we have a disproportionate amount of IE users. They essentially forced us to stand up a linode proxy infront of s3 & create our own CDN, since theirs did not work for our users. In the process we saved 4,000% on our bandwidth.

> bandwidth

How does this industry manage to fuck up usage of very specific technical terms so often.

Bandwidth is the speed. The hint is in the name. Wider means more at once.

You're almost certainly talking about the amount of data transfered.

The most depressing part is seeing hosting companies use the same incorrect terminology.

Comparing 1gbps of bandwidth on AWS and 1gbps of bandwidth on linode, linode is 40x cheaper. Its a measure of bandwidth usage over time, or data transfer. Its the same thing in the context I used it in, which is the industry standard term.

If I were comparing cost of bursting, the semantics would be worth arguing.

how could you save more than 100%?

What I should have said is its 40x cheaper.

But I guess if you factor in not losing customers due to obscure IE problems on AWS, we could have saved over 100% ;) by not losing customers.

Some businesses don't need to worry about obscure IE problems, and AWS will make sense, for us it didn't.

Maybe bandwidth went up in the same period the price went down? Just a guess.

Reluctantly upvoted because while I am trying desperately to cut down on my own snarkiness, I deeply value precision in language

When you say bandwidth, what are you referring to specifically?

The biggest reason Linode didn't make sense for us is that we couldn't scale hard drive space without scaling everything else, too. As the site grew this became pretty crazy.

What I mean specifically is cost of data transfer/bandwidth is cheaper on Linode. If you're pushing 10s or 100s of TB a month its a big deal.

You can still run your own CDN on linode & use amazon s3 as an origin server.

The "locked tiers" model shits me to tears.

I've managed to find a good Xen based vps/dedi host that let you customise memory/disk independently (but regular vps are all "just" 2 vcpus I believe).

"data transfer out", presumably, based on the context.

No, you are correct. AWS charges inexplicably ridiculous prices for bandwidth. By my calculations, the last time their bandwidth rates were market-competitive was in 2007.

Market rate is actually below $0.01/GB even, but I'm very comfortable paying that rate for a multi-homed connection to a managed service.

You should try buying bandwidth somewhere that is not the US :-) or possibly central Europe.

Not to say they don't also charge that for bandwidth in those locations, but per-GB pricing in Australia is more like 20-50c/GB

s/unexplainably/inexplicably

Fixed, thanks.

I was chosen to use the preview and the pricing was originally was $0.02 storage and $0.01 transfer without the first $5. I guess that most of the people spent a lot less than $5. Increasing the minimum spend to 5 should give them a great profit for the people that don't use it that much. I don't know what will happen if a lot of people start using it a lot.

> I don't know what will happen if a lot of people start using it a lot.

That's almost always a nice problem to have. If it was profitable in small scale usage, then it's usually profitable in widespread usage once economies of scale have been applied.

Do you have something else in your estimate? It shows as $5.63 for me.

Are you missing 1TB of transfer out?

Yep, thanks. Didn't change it to TB on the calculator.