Super-Networking Blog

It is really getting interesting on the bandwidth structures available to web based companies now. Amazon’s S3 service is lowering their prices even more than before, they were cheap at $0.20/GB transfer. It is getting to the point where even with a screaming deal on an unlmited transfer plan with a capped Mbps transfer you might want to make the switch.

With some plans you can get unlimited transfer but you can say use 100Mbps at any one time for a flat monthly rate. This can seem like a good deal when you are doing a lot of constant trasfer where you aren’t going to go over the 100Mbps and are just doing a lot of data. The thing is you are capped for high traffic times and no matter if your traffic goes up, stays the same, or goes down you are getting charged the same amount. So when you are doing 90Mbps everyday it is a good deal but when you are doing 10Mbps it becomes a waste of money.

So you look at an option based on GB transfer and they will charge you monthly depending on how my transfer you do. Benefit here if your traffic goes up, hopefully are making more money, the bill goes up but if your traffic goes way down so will the bill. You aren’t tieing yourself to a flat rate you might not be using. The thing in the past was that with GB transfer costs of $1.50/GB, that you find with some CDN networks and a more average $0.50/GB, you are just coming out a lot higher on the cost than with the flat rate. Now with Amazon’s less than $0.20/GB you need to relook at your contracts. Might be time to make the switch.