OVH CEO: Unlike Amazon, Google, “we will never be in competition with you”

Post by sleepychu » Sat, Mar 31, 2018, 8:04 PM UTC

paxys wrote: post #101

wpietri wrote: post #6

This is a nice PR bit, but I wonder if it really matters? I would be very reluctant to do a startup centered on, say, GMail or Amazon Marketplace as a platform. If you get too successful, it's too easy for them to say, "Hey, here's a proven high-value business for us to get into." And then they have my customer right there, so I'm screwed. (An example that comes to mind is Swype. They invented the swipeable virtual k…

You can't discount first mover advantage. From your own example, Swype had immense mind and market share for many years, even after Google, Microsoft and others released their own alternatives. They were eventually bought out for over $100 million.

Post by gaius » Sat, Mar 31, 2018, 8:08 PM UTC

flas9sd wrote: post #41

QUFB wrote: post #15

I run https://wtfismyip.com on OVH. Egress bandwidth exceeds 8TB a month, which on AWS could cost ~$1000/month, not including the cost of the beefy EC2 instance I would need. For some bandwidth heavy use cases, OVH makes a lot more sense than AWS. In my case it was $150/month versus $2000/month (bandwidth + EC2).

just curious - any particular reason to not enable gzip compression for responses?

    $ curl -s https://wtfismyip.com/text|wc -c
      16
    $ curl -s https://wtfismyip.com/text|gzip -|wc -c
      36

Post by nik736 » Sat, Mar 31, 2018, 8:17 PM UTC

KaoruAoiShiho wrote: post #43

tedivm wrote: post #27

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AWS bandwidth costs are obscene. They compete on price so well on most other fronts, but for some reason they just completely overcharge on bandwidth. It makes using them without a CDN cost prohibitive and drives a lot of use cases away from them.

What's the best cdn right now? Cloudfront is just expensive as hell.

Post by AlexCoventry » Sat, Mar 31, 2018, 8:20 PM UTC

opencl wrote: post #60

fwdpropaganda wrote: post #39

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Care to explain what the business model is here?

https://wtfismyip.com/why There is literally an entire page explaining that there is no business model other than a donation button. There are shockingly people than run websites either as a hobby or to provide a useful service for others with no expectation of making money from it.

Post by voxadam » Sat, Mar 31, 2018, 8:45 PM UTC

valenciarose wrote: post #44

dmoy wrote: post #5

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So there are fairly strong regulations on what other things a bank can do. I can't remember exactly what it entails. It's possible Amazon could get around that with holding company structure or something, but I'm not sure. I agree with your general point though, maybe just not the bank part. Edit1: It's not reg W, damn I cannot remember which section describes this. There's too many bank regs in the US. Edit2: ok 12…

> wasted 15 minutes I used to work in a securities firm owned by a bank holding company in a role requiring being registered as a securities principal (legally responsible to supervise). It still took me several minutes to remember which regulations to look up. Amazon doesn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of working around these regulations with the current administration. Trump hates Bezos. With a moderate Republ…