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Originally Posted by borked
THere are not many real CDN providers, but lots of resellers...
Limelight and level3 spring to mind as real providers, the rest are mainly resellers of these two.
CloudFare CDN is its own provider and does a fantastic job for the budget conscious.
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Budget conscious? I was conversing with them via email just a few minutes ago. The gentleman told me they don't do streaming video so I decided to get a quote for just 70 Mbps. The quote .... $3000/month!
That works out to a whopping $42+ per Mbit! Considering that I have had quote of between $5 and $7 from several industry (CDN) leaders like Level3 and other, this price caught me totally by surprise. Taken in context with this blog post it made no sense:
http://blog.cloudflare.com/the-folly...g-by-bandwidth
Don't get me wrong; I am not expecting to pay peanuts for good service or looking for the cheapest service available but I did think $42 / Mbit was a tad steep.
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