On: So you want to build your own data center

[cyberax]

It looked interesting, until I got to the egress cost. Ouch. $100 per TB is way too much if you're using bandwidth-intensive apps.

Meta-comment: it's getting really hard to find hosting services that provide true unlimited bandwidth. I want to do video upload/download in our app, and I'm struggling to find providers of managed servers that would be willing to provide me with fixed price for 10/100GB ports.

[justjake → cyberax]

FWIW, we just pass the costs on from the current cloud providers. Doing this work will let us lower those egress prices!

[cyberax → justjake]

Yeah. Cloud providers are the worst. Their egress costs moved from "expensive but not unreasonable" circa 2010, to "what the fuck" territory now.

A 10G port should be in the range of $2k per month, I believe? I don't mind paying that much.