How low will bandwidth prices go?
 

Every year bandwidth gets cheaper and cheaper. Three years ago, I was paying $2.50/gb for quality bandwidth, now I pay $0.25/gb for even better quality bandwidth (non-cogent).

How low will it go?

What will it be in 2004? 2005? 2006?

Who is giving you 25 cents per gig?

Shit that's low... I'm paying .60

Yeah, who?

jesushosting babeee

You guys are paying more than 25c a gig still?

$.75/gig here

I'm keeping my host a secret, I like to keep that competitive advantage to myself. :winkwink:

They're a host that mostly deals in mainstream, but they sell some of their quality bandwidth really cheap to some adult companies so they can maintain huge volumes so they can get cheaper rates from their provider. They sell the same bandwidth to mainstream companies for waaay more than adult companies.

By the way, that price $0.25/gb ($80/mbps) includes a dual CPU Dell server with huge SCSI HDs.

Best hosting I've ever had, with no downtime. Tech support rocks. 99.99% uptime.

.16 here. :)
If I use my server to the max that is. So in reality like .30$

Hu is the new leader of China

More bandwidth you buy, cheaper it gets. I bet Nastydollars gets their bandwidth at like $0.02/gig for the huge bulk they buy :thumbsup

In 2004 they will pay you to use their server.

80 bucks per mbit = 25 cents a gig? WTF?
You manage to squeeze 320 gigs out of every mbit/sec?
Your traffic doesn't peak? It just stays exactly stable 24/7?

Hahahah BW direct from the main providers is more than 25 cents a gig.


level 3
global crossing
aleron
CAIS 3
williams
verio
Sprint
AT&T
Worldcom
Cable & Wireless


So whoevers giving you 25 cents a gig is stupid or has a tight business plan to sort out thier network.

My bandwidth comes from one of the companies on that list.

Not true at all. BW from providers is actually between 10 and 20 cents a gig. Non cogent.

Hey im not saying poeple dont get good deals.. Im just saying the overall price isnt just gonna keep dropping... most of these drops are an illusion based on overselling your network and unerpaying employees. The shit has hit the fan for many hosting companies. Theres scams in thier world just like the adult internet world. Problem is... we have to deal with both.


Recently a comapny *COUGH* NOCSTER that sold cheap BW and servers went down for a number of DAYS and they had "no clue why."


You get what you pay for.... REPEAT IT
First off they dont sell "by the gig" and even if you do all the math (wich Im not gonna do right now) its more like 40-70 per gig. Technically its not even possible to cut it down that way.

Asswipe, no they don't sell by the gig. But at the average price of 35k per gig-e connection you will get around 10 cents a gig. Level 3, Williams and Verio will sell for 35k per gig.

Stop using Jesus's name in vain.

How many datacenters have you worked at?

Theres way more involved than a fuckinmg GIG-E connection.


So suck my JE-SuS-COCK.

Sorry, I've never been an employee but I have brokered and bought enough circuts to know what it costs.

It's impossible to squeeze 320 gigs out of every mbit.

So, that means it's the new leader of China on first after all. Why didn't you just tell me that to begin with?!?

We have $.19 per gig here.
Real Xeon servers, 100 mbits burstables, no Cogent, no Verio, no transit traffic and NO this F_U_C_K_I_N_G :321GFY "Percentage 95" method

:) I think you mean 95th percentile billing

and thats the biggest scam in hosting... You wouldn't BELIVE how much that screws the custumer.

They'll never believe you. It's too complicated for their brains.

:glugglug

I'm in the market for a new host (managed servers)

Currently at Servint paying way to much for anything and everything..... about the only thing they have going for themselves right now is decent 24/7 tech support

I've looked at swiftco, isprime, xxxwebhosting and a few others.

Anybody use any of these? Good or Bad? Can anyone recommend a host I should look into? I don't want cogent/verio BW, and I want 24/7 tech support with a real live person

A lot of hosts these days are using the term mb to mean 320 gigs. I know its wrong and they must know too, but many do that now. I dunno why because it really confuses things.

That is really stupid, how could they do that? I mean, it will be at least 2005 or 2006 before that happens.

Most of you are clueless. There is so much more to what the end user pays then the cost that your host buys their raw bandwidth for. Examples, Their data center costs, switches, touters, misc hardware, Techs, office staff, .....the list goes on and on....
:)

howhai is the mountain in china

I get .50/gig which is nice and juicy and quality bw

ditto. I was getting .27/gig before, but the new BW is much better. I used to get rejected at Richards Realm about 20% of the time because my galleries were slow from England... no longer.

Candid :thumbsup

when you guys are saying $65 per mbps - is it at 95th percentile or 50th percentile (average)?

Pretty much any provider can give you 25 cents a gig if you order enough bandwidth.

I think prices may go up if Cogent goes out of business.

I don't understand how that screws a customer.

You spend the whole month doing 10 megabit, and somehow one day a link to your site gets where it shouldn't, or a password gets out, or for whatever reason your traffic jumps to 30 megabit for that day.

You now have to pay for the increased average, possibly several hundred dollars more because of this.

95%ile billing prevents just that.

If your site is prone to these types of traffic spikes, you're best suited to 95th percentile, if not, buy per gig, or based on averaged.

Um dude... You dont understand 95th percentile billing. It takes the 95th percent of your HIGHEST USAGE. :1orglaugh

NY > NJ

95th is not good for spikes.

We charge on the 50th percentile which is the avg of wht you sustain per month. not 95% of what you use.

I'll make it simple for ya, would you rather pay 95% for a product or 50% for that same product. Don't over think it it's not a hard concept :thumbsup

In one of my server's mrtg graph at the top of the page it says:

Last 30 days usage (metered 95%): 63413.54 kb/sec

and at the bottom of my monthly graph it says:
Average Out: 35.8 Mb/s

So does it means that Candid will charge me on 36.8 Mbps (Avrg in and out) not 63.4 mbps (95th) ?

If i calculate all my servers bandwidth;

95th graph = 89.2 mbps
Average = 50.4 mbps

:eek7

Your bill at CandidHosting would be for

Average Out: 35.8 Mb/s
*We bill for AVG (50th %) Outbound traffic only

Very very nice! :Graucho

We've had this discussion on this board a hundred times before.
Most people on non-cogent bandwidth pay around 50 cents a gig. The rest of you "think" you pay less than that.

Fuck mbps, 95th percentile, 50th percentile and all that shit. Ask a host flat out what they'll bill you BY THE GIG. Tell them you want to pay for what you use, no more, no less.
The price you get for that is the price you'll end up paying on any of their other plans. (capped 10mbps line, 95th percentile, etc etc)

Ok I get bandwidth at around 20 cents per gig.

what exactly is the "95 Percentile"? I believe that is what our hosting company is doing?

Thanks,

JDog

seriously?

35.8 Mb/s as your customer's mrtg graph shows? Not "Independent" stat service?
Oh, man you're going to beat the market!

btw, maybe it depends on your regular prices :Hollering

YEs but compare the prices of the two. More than likely the prices of the two will be the same.
Most who say they bill on average, charge a bit more than the ones who charge on 95% . And some companys will even let you pick how you want to be billed, and the 95% price is always cheaper than the 50% price.



In the end, go with someone who knows what they are doing and keeps your sites up and running so you make money.

Sure, but your price per megabit is going to be higher when billed on average.

Check out CandidHosting
Our Prices are all on there :thumbsup

Feel free to hit me up for a quote as well

Yeah I just checked and there are no MBPS prices on the site. Only by the gig virtual prices and server rent for dedicateds.

A host that bills you on average mbps instead of 95th percentile mbps will charge roughly twice as much per meg.
It all comes down to "how much per actual gig transferred". Everything else is smoke and mirrors to make prices look better.

For those of you that "think" you're paying 20 cents a gig, get last months hosting bill, and then check your logs to see how many gigs you actually transferred out. Divide A by B and you'll be very surprised at what that number is.
:2 cents:

Please don't seriously tell me you are questioning out reputation 99.99% uptime here