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Why would they need to buy bandwidth? Many places would offer you a gigabit pipe directly.




Sure, some places charge to upgrade. Some places are metered.

100Mbps is 33TB / mo. 1Gbps is 330 TB / mo. I'm curious what they have and how they prevent saturation from a client or they just pass on networks managed by the DC.


Replying to myself since OP shared elsewhere they are using Tier.

$950.00/month for 100TB @ 1Gbps

20A @ 208V

61 Usable IPv4 or free BGP

And half rack is $650 / mo for 30TB @ 1Gbps (so basically the full month at 1/10th full pipe).

https://www.tier.net/colocation


> Many places would offer you a gigabit pipe directly.

i.e. you don't have redundancy? A gigabit is nothing these days sadly. You can get a surge in traffic (DDoS or not) and be stuck quite quickly. You always need extra capacity to deal with issues unforeseen and that adds to the cost.




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