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@seedlingattempt@kolektiva.social @benx@kolektiva.social

Yeah I don't actually know that much about the market for bandwidth at the commercial scale, I just know that its the most common thing that you get nickle-and-dimed for on the public cloud. It could be a little bit of a "gentlemans agreement" among the public clouds that they all get to overcharge for it.

But I think some of them don't, like hetzner for example offers 20x cheaper bandwidth compared to DigitalOcean.

In terms of real numbers, @f0x the owner of the mastodon server I use plus an active matrix server and some other stuff, saw something like 80TB of bandwidth in a month if I remember correctly. That's 4x the amount you get included with hetzner's $5/mo VPS

@forestjohnson @seedlingattempt@kolektiva.social @benx@kolektiva.social huh not sure where the 80TB came from, across servers i've used about 3TB in the last month, and a lot of that is backup traffic between servers, and incoming traffic isn't billed at all on Hetzner

@f0x @seedlingattempt@kolektiva.social @benx@kolektiva.social

My memory must be messed up -- I obviously don't remember what it was, I just remember that it was an impressive amount from my PoV. My server was serving up less than 100GB/mo. But i dont serve any social media stuff.

I was planning on charging $0.01 per GB for greenhouse (DigitalOcean prices) but it would have made your situation cost-prohibitive. I also didn't know about the cheap bandwidth on hetzner.

I would love to be able to make greenhouse into a bargain basement "efficient market" for bandwidth if possible, still working on figuring out what that would look like. But I can definitely do better than $0.01/GB. With hetzner prices its about $0.50/TB, 20x cheaper.

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