Comments on: Flat Rate or Per GB Transfer

By: james

james — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 17:01:17 +0000

interesting site man

By: bob

bob — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 16:03:26 +0000

By: vcdn

vcdn — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 09:23:10 +0000

There are a few CDN providers offering even lower transfer rates - as low as $0.10 per 1Gig. However, as your article says 0.20$ is very low pricing as well.

By: chris.super

chris.super — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 15:47:20 +0000

I agree that you cannot look at the price along, they company I worked for at the time did not use them for our primary download network.

We used Panther Express which is a high quality CDN network at a low price. S3 was more for a failback if there were issues with the CDN or for traffic that didn’t need a high quality connection but did need a cheap price.

You need to look at all the pieces of the puzzle and see what works best for you. We found that for the services we received the $1.50/GB was not worth it when we could get the same/better service from a CDN for sub $0.50/GB transfer.

By: spenser

spenser — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 06:17:08 +0000

While $0.20/GB transfer does look cheap compared to, say $1.50/GB, content distribution networks also have the unenviable task of educating up and coming site administrators in a world of oversold hosting services.

On a per GB transfer basis, they have unbeatable pricing. The problem comes when a site actually tries to drive that amount of traffic through the network.

Content delivery networks are all about real network usage and not hypothetical pricing limits.

That’s the long way of saying that to the uninitiated, even Amazon S3 looks espensive.