Re:Is a billion dollars worth of server lying on the ground?
by hyperdimension on Monday November 02, 2020 @07:10PM
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The term 'roach motel' comes to mind when I see their network traffic rates.
"Come on in; there's no commitment. Pay as you go, and did I mention our ingress rates are free! Bring us your data and give the cloud a try. It's the future, you know..."
"Oh you're leaving and want your data back now?"
As a example, 20TB of egress bandwidth will cost you around $1,750 on Azure, almost $90/TB! Your typical server/VPS provider gives you that kind of bandwidth allowance for free, because it costs them close to nothing.
I have a feeling almost all complaints about cloud costs would disappear forever if they'd only stop gouging customers on bandwidth.
The likes of Hetzner and OVH are starting to offer more cloudy features, like load balancers and block storage. My hope is that eventually they become viable alternatives to the big 3, and they are finally forced to reduce their ludicrous bandwidth prices.