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benbro | 13 years ago

How is it possible that amazon charge $0.050 per GB (for more than 350 TB / month ) while DigitalOcean charge $0.02 per GB for each extra GB and 0.005$ / GB for the 5$ plan? How can they make any profit?

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ios84dev|13 years ago

Given you can get 1Gbps from Cogent for ~1K/mo (at least that's the price I heard last time they were having a sale) that works out to $0.003/GB, so both are making a massive amount of profit.

benbro|13 years ago

How can I get $0.003/GB? Can I do it with a single dedicated server or do I need my own data center?