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Re:Why cloud bandwidth is so obscenely expensive and what yo... by kccqzy on Thursday October 26, 2023 @01:54PM (#38029244)
In the early 2000s before Google even IPO'ed, they experimented with such colo with unlimited bandwidth allocations to run their search crawler. It turns out something that's labeled unlimited isn't truly unlimited.
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Re:Why cloud bandwidth is so obscenely expensive and what yo... by Syonyk on Thursday October 26, 2023 @02:17PM (#38029603)
Man, some of the early "Google before they had their own DC" stories are epic, if you can get an SRE talking at some point.
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