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Old 01-12-2017, 11:02 AM  
wankawonk
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Originally Posted by redwhiteandblue View Post
Probably a lot less than you or I.

If you search for cdn pricing (all the big tubes will be using one) and enter 500Tb you can get the price down to about $0.022/Gb. So a 100Mb movie would cost you 0.22 cents. And 500Tb is just a number I plucked out of thin air, the big tubes probably go through a lot more than that.
2 cents per gig is still way too high. Average user is worth a tenth of a cent so just to break even you'd need to serve 20 users with 1 gig data. Not happening.

If you want the best price, you don't use a CDN. You get servers with 10gbps network cards and unlimited bandwidth. Costs 1500-2000 a month. Even if you're only averaging 100MBps you're still saving more than 50% compared to a .02/GB CDN.
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