right now I am on a shared plan that gives me 7.5 TB of bandwidth a month for about $7.00 per month - I was looking at dedicated servers on The Planet and it was looking like $349 a month for about 3TB of bandwidth?#?$#@?$@ or maybe $60 a month for 500GB Bandwidth so why would I ever switch to a dedicated server I am aware of the oversell on shared servers - but for these levels? on a related question - in the near future I will be needing large amounts of bandwidth - and paying $300 a month for 3 TB is not going to cut it any recommendations besides running a pipe into my bedroom.
You won't be able to hit even 500GB of traffic on your 7 dollar host. You are obviously not really aware of overselling levels. Bandwidth costs, and if you can't pay it, don't try cheap alternatives, you'll just end up whining more.
I thought the same, but I have been using about 1.5 TB a month for the past 4 months I am just trying to understand market prices. For dedicated servers - is the rate around +-$100 per TB of bandwidth per month - does the price go drastically down with larger amounts?
For a per TB pricing, the price doesn't really go down easily. You need to commit to 95th percentile bandwidth ( 50 mbps or more if you want to get a good pricing) which at high commits on a quality network can net you 15$/mbps, and at lower ones, like 50mbps expect 20$/mbps. 1mbps is roughly 330GB. Though most dedicated providers don't openly offer 95th percentile, I'm sure they might be able to arrange it, as it is mostly used for colocation.
Get an unmetered hosting plan, you can get really good deals if you look out. I have a QuadCore, 4GB ram 750GB harddrive and unmetered hosting for $250 a month.
so you are saying with a bit of work I can get around 15TB for $750 a month - or about $50 a TB - - - - I understand 95th percentile to be that the top %5 of spikes in traffic (ie...if you have a digg day) and bottom %5 of lulls in traffic are chopped off in order to get a medium traffic. please confirm? any recommendations for providers? it will be a scalable social type thingie.
Even with unmeterd bw your server will only be allowed to push out x amount of bw you will not get a total unlimited bw Most data centers tha tI have been with will charge you .25-.50 a gb of bw agter your alloted amount.
For 15TB I doubt you can get that pricing, you'll need to commit to a lot more. But what is your budget and how do you plan to do this? A single high end server, or distributed amongst a few midrange servers?
Usually, unlimited means 3.3TB, which is 10mbps 24/7, unlimited seems good but you are really limited by the output.
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I just checked out Mosso - a quick glance gives me the funny feeling that they are resellers and dont actually do the hosting. But thats just a guess (a snake can always recognize a snake) and I may be wrong comparing them to Amazon Ec3 I think they are a little more expensive - I liked what nashtrax was talking about above - a 10mps line and unmetered for $250 - Any recommendations where to look?
Mosso is owned by rackspace. It is unclear to me what their hosting delivery relationship is. Mosso is $100 a month for a dedicated server equivalent, Amazon is ~$75 a month for a dedicated server equivalent. Mosso is nearly effortless, amazon EC2 is beautiful but a huge pain in the ass (on EC2 you need at least 2 servers to get redundancy, 4 if you are running separate load balancers and www servers, 6 if you have load balancing, www, and mysql separated - further you have to worry about data impermanence and backup to S3) At $25 more per month, I'm glad to send the extra to Mosso. If you're interested in checking it out, any existing member can get you a $50 off referral plus the first month is free. Media Temple has a similar service that I have not investigated but I think starts at a lower price point. I moved over from 1and1 and I can't say how much better I sleep knowing that if I get a spike in traffic of 100x overnight, the site won't break and my marginal costs stay the same. Worth every penny in my opinion.
At that rate, the physical maximum you can push is 3300gb per month. If this is enought go for it. With a 10mbps line, if you need lots of bandwidth, your delivery may come slow as your line gets saturated. A 100mbps port would be best if you need high speed.
You're going to be looking at around 7$/mbit for the absolute cheapest bandwidth in the entire world. That's about 7$/mo per 600gb. (That price is if you buy at least 1gbit of bandwidth, 1-10mbit you're looking at around 15$/mo per mbit) Most services will offer you a base level of bandwidth that should meet your needs. Most providers start at least 1tb-2tb per month. If you're interested I could sell you a value level server (dual xeon/opteron, 1-2gb mem, 73gb+ hd) for about 300-400$ and provide you with colocation service at my rackspace in the 611 Wilshire, LA datacenter.. Bandwidth pricing is what I gave you above, and I can guarantee that is the cheapest dedicated 1:1 bandwidth you will find. You will be able to easily top out 10mbit or 100mbit depending on your port speed.