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Re:How Discord Handles Two and Half Million Concurrent Voice... by Slartie on Monday September 10, 2018 @05:53PM (#17955540)
Regarding bandwidth, since that is probably the most important resource required by your voice servers: do you strategically use the mixed-calculation-type pricing that some dedicated server providers offer (where you can get large amounts of traffic included in cheap server prices because very few heavy users are subsidized by many users that only use a tiny fraction of their bandwidth share) or are you rather renting dedicated uplinks for your servers that you and your provider expect to be fully saturated most of the time?
Re:How Discord Handles Two and Half Million Concurrent Voice... by bcheung on Monday September 10, 2018 @08:55PM (#17956387)
Can't speak for Discord but at that scale a provider is probably going to charge you for the physical pipe 100 Mbps, 1 Gbps, 10 Gbps, or by the bandwidth used (Mbps) using the 95% percentile method.