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A comment on Ask HN: Why is bandwidth so expensive?.

Re:Ask HN: Why is bandwidth so expensive? by WhiteOwlLion on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @10:51AM (#16967438)
What is expensive?

You can find places like OVH or Online.net that has dedicated servers with "unlimited" bandwidth. Cost is far less than you'd find with the major cloud services. I had a 10Mbps dedicated server for several years on online.net serving 2-3 TB of video per month. Unless you get hammered with many requests, SATA might be enough, while SSD will obviously offer better performance.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is bandwidth so expensive? by cmorgan8506 on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @11:17AM (#16967724)
Thanks for this. I think maybe I've been barking up the wrong tree with "video hosting" services which appear to charge a significant premium on data transfer.
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