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My hunch is that Everpix's $35,000/mo AWS bill could have been significantly less if they went with their own dedicated servers.

When I ran my music start-up, really smart people would look at me funny when I'd tell them it is cheaper than AWS for us to get a couple of high-power dedicated servers with unmetered 100mbps bandwidth. We were pushing over 100tb per month and paying under $3,000/mo, including the cost for our web and db servers.

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i was pushing 100 T / month with one server 1Gbit unmetered at 250$ / mo , also music site.

What backbones? We had an option to get much cheaper pricing on Cogent. We decided to pay a bit extra for premium.

Also, most of our cost was for the hardware(not the bandwidth). We went with top-notch storage with RAID and a bunch of ram. In hindsight, we should have bought the hardware for one-time fee but didn't for cash flow reasons.

Wise move!

FWIW, 100TB (approx 300Mbps continuous) costs us approximately $450/mo with a good quality host (Quadranet) with a good blend of upstreams. A cheaper host (Ubiquity) charge us about half of that. It's worth paying the extra for sure.

Where did you buy your dedicated servers ?

Initially Softlayer. When that became too expensive, we negotiated a deal with an excellent provider called Choopa.com.

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