Why We Moved Off The Cloud

Re:Why We Moved Off The Cloud by herbivore on Thursday October 27, 2011 @08:49PM (#3166386)

With many (if not most) reputable dedicated server providers nowadays Inbound traffic is not calculated towards your overall traffic. In other words, it's free and generally unlimited.

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Re:Why We Moved Off The Cloud by asharp on Friday October 28, 2011 @06:44AM (#3167727)

Remember that most loads are 1:10 inbound:outbound, so unless you have a strange sort of workload it really doesn't help you much.

If you do happen to have a lot of inbound traffic though, it's a nice little arrangement as the bandwidth may be almost free to the provider (Symetricity requirements) and still very useful to you.

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Re:Why We Moved Off The Cloud by benologist on Thursday October 27, 2011 @09:42PM (#3166575)

I did not know that. My provider counts inbound which sucks because that's most of our traffic but we run at about 6 out of 10 terabytes per server per month so it's not a problem... for now.

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Re:Why We Moved Off The Cloud by dhimes on Friday October 28, 2011 @12:40PM (#3168972)

It double-sucks because it's not easy (AFAIK) to gzip traffic from web app to the server.

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