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  • noam
    Confirmed User
    • Jul 2004
    • 730
    #1

    Anyone paying less than $0.2/GB to their CDN?

    My current CDN is charging me $0.2/GB. I didn't really mind but now we're pushing about 6-10TB a month and they're not willing to give us any volume discount.

    Their service is very high-end and I'm not looking to go down in service-quality. So, can anyone recommend a CDN?

    I hear that you can get service from Akamai at $0.15/GB if you know a good account manager...
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    • abshard
      Confirmed User
      • Jan 2002
      • 6524
      #2
      Just bw you can get alot cheaper then that, but CDN is multiple servers right? Is your price including alot of server for 20cents per gig?

      If my math is right im paying about 1/10th what your paying for BW but i just have 1 server

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        • noam
          Confirmed User
          • Jul 2004
          • 730
          #3
          Originally posted by abshard
          Just bw you can get alot cheaper then that, but CDN is multiple servers right? Is your price including alot of server for 20cents per gig?

          If my math is right im paying about 1/10th what your paying for BW but i just have 1 server
          Yes CDN means multiple servers. A good CDN will route every request to the nearest server, automatically fail-over in case one server crashes and also balance the load between multiple servers during peaks.

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            • noam
              Confirmed User
              • Jul 2004
              • 730
              #4
              Hmm anyone using http://simplecdn.com ?

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                • joshuawk
                  Confirmed User
                  • Jun 2003
                  • 1092
                  #5
                  is playedonline.com your site?
                  i love GW

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                        • noam
                          Confirmed User
                          • Jul 2004
                          • 730
                          #7
                          Originally posted by joshuawk
                          is playedonline.com your site?
                          Yup.

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                            • xxweekxx
                              Confirmed User
                              • Oct 2002
                              • 6780
                              #8
                              howd you build up so much traffic man? how many hits u getting with that daily?

                              ive always wanted to run a gaming site, just not sure how to get the games/traffic
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                                • noam
                                  Confirmed User
                                  • Jul 2004
                                  • 730
                                  #9
                                  Originally posted by xxweekxx
                                  howd you build up so much traffic man? how many hits u getting with that daily?
                                  ive always wanted to run a gaming site, just not sure how to get the games/traffic
                                  PlayedOnline.com is the result of 4 years of hard work I can't really sum it up in a forum post but here's tip #1:

                                  http://www.google.com/search?q=strategy+games

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                                    • xxweekxx
                                      Confirmed User
                                      • Oct 2002
                                      • 6780
                                      #10
                                      did you design all those games? or just got em from other sites
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                                        • jay23
                                          Confirmed User
                                          • Jun 2003
                                          • 1444
                                          #11
                                          Originally posted by noam
                                          My current CDN is charging me $0.2/GB. I didn't really mind but now we're pushing about 6-10TB a month and they're not willing to give us any volume discount.

                                          Their service is very high-end and I'm not looking to go down in service-quality. So, can anyone recommend a CDN?

                                          I hear that you can get service from Akamai at $0.15/GB if you know a good account manager...
                                          I dont want to post here what i pay but if you email me at jay @ objectcube.com i will let you know.

                                          Jay

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                                            • noam
                                              Confirmed User
                                              • Jul 2004
                                              • 730
                                              #12
                                              Originally posted by xxweekxx
                                              did you design all those games? or just got em from other sites
                                              We stole them from poor Mexicans.

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                                                • SmellyNose
                                                  Confirmed User
                                                  • Aug 2009
                                                  • 206
                                                  #13
                                                  Originally posted by noam
                                                  We stole them from poor Mexicans.
                                                  Good on ya. Keep at it.
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                                                    • DWB
                                                      Registered User
                                                      • Jul 2003
                                                      • 31779
                                                      #14
                                                      I get conflicting reports on people using CDN. In theory it seems like its the right thing to do, then you start asking around and you hear it doesn't make a difference to warrant the cost.

                                                      Excuse my ignorance on the topic, I've just started looking into it and this is what I'm hearing, often from hosting companies directly.

                                                      Do you think it's really worth the extra cost?

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                                                        • borked
                                                          Totally Borked
                                                          • Feb 2005
                                                          • 6284
                                                          #15
                                                          What CDN are you currently using? Level3?
                                                          Maybe you need to go onto a Gbs plan rather than GB total...

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                                                            • react
                                                              Confirmed User
                                                              • Sep 2003
                                                              • 673
                                                              #16
                                                              SoftLayer resells Internap's CDN at < 12c/GB on that volume (they only price up to 2TB, beyond that is custom). Storage is a consideration if you want content cached at the edges > 24h.
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                                                                • discountencoding
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                                                                  • Nov 2009
                                                                  • 88
                                                                  #17
                                                                  Originally posted by borked
                                                                  What CDN are you currently using? Level3?
                                                                  Maybe you need to go onto a Gbs plan rather than GB total...
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                                                                    • andrej_NDC
                                                                      Registered User
                                                                      • May 2004
                                                                      • 7760
                                                                      #18
                                                                      You pay way too much. Just send your specs to 5-6 different reliable hosts to get a quote and compare.

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                                                                        • PowerCum
                                                                          CjOverkill
                                                                          • Apr 2003
                                                                          • 1328
                                                                          #19
                                                                          We are just finishing our new CDN.

                                                                          The price will be $0.01 per GB when the system gets online and ready for sale. That's mixing severs in USA and EU and delivering using geolocation or just round robin according to client preferences

                                                                          In fact, we are trying to get it even lower at near $0.0075 per GB, and that's quite possible with high volume sites pushing around 500 Mbit/sec or more.
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                                                                            • Theo
                                                                              HAL 9000
                                                                              • May 2001
                                                                              • 34515
                                                                              #20
                                                                              send me an email pls at theo @ avn.com - I'd like to show you a new money making service suitable for gaming traffic :-)

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