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Re:Linode vs. DigitalOcean – performance benchmarks by benbro on Tuesday February 12, 2013 @03:05PM (#5209130)
How is it possible that amazon charge $0.050 per GB (for more than 350 TB / month ) while DigitalOcean charge $0.02 per GB for each extra GB and 0.005$ / GB for the 5$ plan? How can they make any profit?
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Re:Linode vs. DigitalOcean – performance benchmarks by ios84dev on Tuesday February 12, 2013 @04:04PM (#5209518)
Given you can get 1Gbps from Cogent for ~1K/mo (at least that's the price I heard last time they were having a sale) that works out to $0.003/GB, so both are making a massive amount of profit.
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Re:Linode vs. DigitalOcean – performance benchmarks by benbro on Tuesday February 12, 2013 @05:46PM (#5210096)
How can I get $0.003/GB? Can I do it with a single dedicated server or do I need my own data center?
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Re:Linode vs. DigitalOcean – performance benchmarks by ios84dev on Thursday February 21, 2013 @02:31PM (#5259588)
Contact your local cogent rep. If your dedicated server is in a building with a cogent feed you can probably get a line to it. I'm not sure their current non sales pricing and that might require a 10Gbps commit.
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