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It really does vary. If it were a straight bandwidth purchase the range would be likely be in the teens. Oversimplifying the whole solution to 'whats the price for 1 gigabit' isn't anywhere near accurate. GFY has this way of overly dumbing things down - the true cost of hosting is only partially the bandwidth. Even getting to a true cost on bandwidth only has to take into consideration other factors such as network infrastructure and support costs, cross connects, term agreements with carriers, etc. Even if a host buys at XX.XX per megabit the true cost to just give someone an uplink could easily be (and most likely is) 10-20% higher. Hosts have real employees managing their edge routers, real lawyers doing their purchase agreements, hundreds of thousands and more in network equipment making everything work..... And at the end of the day if the variable cost is the straight cost of additional bandwidth, the fixed cost is all of the other overhead...... Stuff has to get marked up so that companies have a real contribution to their bottom line so that they can grow their business, reinvest and enjoy healthy profit.
My guess would be that there are a dozen or two servers of various specs, and a full suite of management by the host. If you would like a thoughtful analysis of your current physical and cost infrastructure along with a competitive quote for service I would be happy to do that for you.
Cheers,
Brad Mitchell
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