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High Volume, Bandwidth Heavy Infrastructure On The Cheap - Kyle Drake

PDX Node · talk · Watch on YouTube

Cloud, DevOps & reliabilityNetworking & internet infrastructure

What it is

Kyle Drake of Neocities explains the bandwidth pricing pitfalls of the big cloud providers. He describes how to run high-volume, bandwidth-heavy infrastructure far more cheaply, including through co-location.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN recommends it whenever cloud egress costs come up, since it gives concrete numbers on real bandwidth costs versus cloud pricing.

  • 3 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2017, last 2020

What HN commenters said

  1. “Kyle Drake (neocities.org) dedicated an entire talk[1] to this topic”

    Talk on cheap high-volume bandwidth infrastructure

    carussell, 2018-03 · Recommendation · in “Backblaze cuts B2 download price in half”

  2. “The guy who runs the site gave a talk a while back about how crazy cheap it is to host it”

    How cheap hosting can be versus cloud vendors

    tw20190409mhbcd, 2019-04 · Recommendation · in “Netlify Dev”

  3. “Check out this talk by Kyle Drake that goes more into the details of bandwidth costs”

    Details of real bandwidth costs versus cloud pricing

    diggan, 2020-11 · Recommendation · in “Show HN: Zfs.rent”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: bandwidth, co-location, cloud pricing, cdn, neocities

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