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0 pointsrsynnott1y ago0 comments

> So, "Pi mal Daumen"* this means that US customers have a bandwidth consumption which almost an order of magnitude higher than that of European and Singaporean customers?

I wouldn't be amazed if Hetzner benefits significantly from peering, which is much more widespread in US than in Europe. Interesting piece on this from Cloudflare: https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-relative-cost-of-bandwidth-a...

It's quite possible that their costs really are significantly lower in Europe. No idea what things are like in Singapore.

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Symbiote1y ago· 1 in thread

You've written that the wrong way around. You've written the opposite of what Cloudflare writes.

They write that transit bandwith costs are similar in Europe and the USA, but Europe has more peering — it's around 50% of their traffic rather than 20%.

> The corollary is that in Europe transit is also cheap but peering is very easy, making the effective price of bandwidth in the region the lowest in the world.

rsynnottOP1y ago

Oops, yep, so I have. Should’ve read “much more widespread in Europe than the US”. Sorry, long day.

rmoriz1y ago

Really? Peering is very big in Europe, we have like 10+ CIX operators with 20+ locations in Germany alone.

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