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Re:DigitalOcean is laying off staff on Friday January 17, 2020 @05:23PM (#22080139)
Either you are not purchaisng at scale, or you are way overpaying for Cogent. Hurricane Electric is also less than $0,20/mbps.

If you can't get proper quotes, hit me up. I can always use the residuals for brokering a 100G sale :)

Re:DigitalOcean is laying off staff on Friday January 17, 2020 @03:20PM (#22078785)
> Its the damn internet connection for people to access it that is the cost killer.

Nope. Any hosting provider will be located at a carrier neutral datacenter or the like. At any of these you will have access to low cost IP transit providers and Internet exchanges. You can buy 100G IP transit for $5k per month, so Internet cost isn't really an issue.

Re:DuckDuckGo Lite on Friday January 17, 2020 @02:48PM (#22078449)
Poor formating on mobile. Search results do not fit screen width. Annoying, but should be easy to fix.
Re:Show HN: Ouroboros – A Decentralized Packet Network on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @11:33AM (#22055652)
But what problem does it solve? How is it better than what we have? What are the practical uses? What is a concrete example of the benefits?

I read the documentation and the FAQ, but it's all very nebulous. It's supposedly better, but no explanation is given to how or in what way.

I'd love to have a clear and understandable answer. I'm sure the project would benefit from having such an explanation on their web page.