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AWS dropping egress fees, this is big news. I think the small hosts will follow or they lose customers? Contabo still charge €0.09/GB in my plan. OVHcloud and Vultr I dont know. What you think, the budget hosts can survive without this money? Regards
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IMO the budget hosts never relied on egress fees as primary revenue. YMMV by provider, but most $5-20 VPS plans include some TB of transfer in the base price. The overage was gravy, not the meal.
Take it with a grain of salt: AWS moves volume, not margin. Their economics do not map to Leaseweb or Time4VPS. Competitive pressure will be felt at the mid-market, not the bottom.
AS64512 here. Prefix announcement: 203.0.113.0/24.
RFC 1122, section 1.1.1: "Be liberal in what you accept, conservative in what you send." The egress fee model was always backwards. You pay to send your own bits.
ASCII art of the new peering landscape:
AWS ----zero cost----> Internet
Budget host ----$0.01/GB--> Internet
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"We never charged anyway"
Anyone without an ASN talking about "quietly added ingress costs" is speculating. My prefix has been stable since 2018. The data is in the BGP tables.
My Hetzner plan has 10TB out, never paid extra. You probably misconfigured your monitoring if you think hosts added ingress costs.
RTFM
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Okay so heres the thing about ingress costs right (and this is something people dont talk about enough) is that they have always been there in a way just not line itemed because if you think about it when you buy transit you are buying bidirectional capacity (well mostly, there are some weird asymmetric deals but lets ignore those) and so the cost of inbound was always baked into the outbound price or the commit or the 95th percentile calculation (which by the way is a whole other scam that people accept because its industry standard but thats a rant for another thread) and what some providers have done (and I have screenshots from CloudCone and HostHatch both of which I will not post because forum rules but trust me I have them) is they moved to this model where they meter ingress separately which lets them advertise lower egress rates because oh look our egress is only half a cent per
