We handle 80TB and 5M page views a month for under $400
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We handle 80TB and 5M page views a month for under $400
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Re: We handle 80TB and 5M page views a month for under $400
#2Uh, so how does cloudflare do it, since the answer is basically "cloudflare".
They have sweet deals with the cloud providers?
Re: We handle 80TB and 5M page views a month for under $400
#3Uh, so how does cloudflare do it, since the answer is basically "cloudflare". They have sweet deals with the cloud providers?
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Re: We handle 80TB and 5M page views a month for under $400
#4Uh, so how does cloudflare do it, since the answer is basically "cloudflare". They have sweet deals with the cloud providers?
They don't have a cloud computing business to put a walled garden around (yet).
Also see their post about it https://blog.cloudflare.com/aws-egregious-egress/
Re: We handle 80TB and 5M page views a month for under $400
#5Uh, so how does cloudflare do it, since the answer is basically "cloudflare". They have sweet deals with the cloud providers?
Bandwidth Alliance, a consortium of companies that offer free (or steeply discounted) bandwidth between participants.
Re: We handle 80TB and 5M page views a month for under $400
#6Uh, so how does cloudflare do it, since the answer is basically "cloudflare". They have sweet deals with the cloud providers?
Cloudflare has their own hardware and so pays a "market price" for bandwidth (which is much lower than what clouds (over)charge) and their business model relies on other value-add products rather than just bandwidth. I wouldn't be surprised if they actually lose money on this deal, but I guess it sometimes pays off to provide loss leaders.
Re: We handle 80TB and 5M page views a month for under $400
#7I've deployed similar stacks at scale multiple times and it is amazing how well it all works given how little it costs.
Re: We handle 80TB and 5M page views a month for under $400
#8How do 5M page views consume 80TB of traffic? That sounded like a lot, but calculates out to 1,600KB per page view. That's a lot of JS and images on every page :)
A few years ago when I hosted what felt to me like a popular site, I was serving serving > 150K page views a month from a 1.5Mbps adsl uplink. With that said, back then you could gzip everything and there was no letsencrypt or CloudFlare walls across the board (didn't exist yet).
Good thing bandwidth is easier to come by these days.
Re: We handle 80TB and 5M page views a month for under $400
#9Uh, so how does cloudflare do it, since the answer is basically "cloudflare". They have sweet deals with the cloud providers?
Cloudflare subsidizes the small guys in hopes they'll turn into big guys. Bandwidth isn't that expensive in the first place though, that's just a myth perpetuated by AWS/Azure/Google.
Re: We handle 80TB and 5M page views a month for under $400
#10Uh, so how does cloudflare do it, since the answer is basically "cloudflare". They have sweet deals with the cloud providers?
Cloudflare is currently operating at a close to break-even loss.