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The pricing link doesn't work on my iPhone/mobile safari. Now the site is down...which makes me think this cdn doesn't work so well. I currently pay ~500/mo for a cdn so I am a real potential customer.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Content from https://arc.io/pricing : CDN Bandwidth $0.02 per GB Egress (worldwide) (76% cheaper than AWS1) Usage is billed monthly, on the first day of each calendar month. Additionally, only peer-to-peer egress bandwidth is billed; all peer-to-peer ingress bandwidth is free. For example, if a 100kB image is loaded from Arc's peer-to-peer network, only 100kB of bandwidth is billed, not 200kB (100kB of egress + 100kB…
Still 2x compared to backblaze b2. E.g., it better have good performance.
And Hetzner is a no-nonsense real company that's been around since 1997.
Hetzner machines have dedicated 1Gbps connections. Arc.io promises nothing.
Arc.io is a faceless company with no track record, no history, and doesn't say how long they've been around.
Who would you choose?
So... Hetzner bandwidth is $0.00112/GB, almost 18x cheaper than arc.io ( https://wiki.hetzner.de/index.php/Traffic/en ) And Hetzner is a no-nonsense real company that's been around since 1997. Hetzner machines have dedicated 1Gbps connections. Arc.io promises nothing. Arc.io is a faceless company with no track record, no history, and doesn't say how long they've been around. Who would you choose?
Interesting. How does this affect GDPR? Are we using & monetizing customers' bandwidth without their permission?
not covered by General Data Protection Regulation.
I clicked around curious how it works behind the scenes. Here is how they explain it: https://arc.io/product#how-does-arc's-cdn-work-technically? (you have to copy-paste the link because HN won't auto-link a URL with a trailing question mark)
https://arc.io/product#how-does-arc's-cdn-work-technically
I'm curious about this line: >Users receive 10% in user rewards for sharing bandwidth with the network. Does this mean the users who are visiting the site with the Arc widget (acting as seeds for the p2p cdn)? Is Arc going to send me a check in the mail, and if so, what registration do I need to do to get that money? If most users don't sign up to be paid, what happens to their "share" of that 10%? Is it redistribute…
So... Hetzner bandwidth is $0.00112/GB, almost 18x cheaper than arc.io ( https://wiki.hetzner.de/index.php/Traffic/en ) And Hetzner is a no-nonsense real company that's been around since 1997. Hetzner machines have dedicated 1Gbps connections. Arc.io promises nothing. Arc.io is a faceless company with no track record, no history, and doesn't say how long they've been around. Who would you choose?
(*I'm not assuming Arc.io does this, just that "fast" and "reliable" are table-stakes properties of CDNs.)
So... Hetzner bandwidth is $0.00112/GB, almost 18x cheaper than arc.io ( https://wiki.hetzner.de/index.php/Traffic/en ) And Hetzner is a no-nonsense real company that's been around since 1997. Hetzner machines have dedicated 1Gbps connections. Arc.io promises nothing. Arc.io is a faceless company with no track record, no history, and doesn't say how long they've been around. Who would you choose?
So... Hetzner bandwidth is $0.00112/GB, almost 18x cheaper than arc.io ( https://wiki.hetzner.de/index.php/Traffic/en ) And Hetzner is a no-nonsense real company that's been around since 1997. Hetzner machines have dedicated 1Gbps connections. Arc.io promises nothing. Arc.io is a faceless company with no track record, no history, and doesn't say how long they've been around. Who would you choose?