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> Its the damn internet connection for people to access it that is the cost killer.

Nope. Any hosting provider will be located at a carrier neutral datacenter or the like. At any of these you will have access to low cost IP transit providers and Internet exchanges. You can buy 100G IP transit for $5k per month, so Internet cost isn't really an issue.

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> You can buy 100G IP transit for $5k per month.

I'd be curious to learn more, even Cogent is in the $0,20/mbps ballpark which would be ~$20k/month for 100G.

Either you are not purchaisng at scale, or you are way overpaying for Cogent. Hurricane Electric is also less than $0,20/mbps.

If you can't get proper quotes, hit me up. I can always use the residuals for brokering a 100G sale :)

You know, there are some people that just like to do things themselves so that one day instead of buying from the big guy like everyone else, they become the big guy. You can build a distributed datacenter yourself for 500$ a month that can compete with the more expensive network until you grow your user base large enough to afford it. Sometimes VC magic is a bad thing because when you don't have that option, the only other one is to innovate.

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