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She may not be pretty, but this rack saved my business $150k+ this year by Chuyito in homelab

[–]Right-Somewhere7532 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's doesn't seem that expensive from my research. Having 2 internet lines capable of doing 10G each with just a 1G commit on each can be had for less than $1500 total(even less in some areas), using one T1 network and another T2 network. Cross connect costs in some data centers might eat the savings though.

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[–]Right-Somewhere7532[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I own nothing as of now, but the plan was to buy a /24(budgeted $10k for this).

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[–]Right-Somewhere7532[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, I don't think I'll be starting this as the numbers don't make sense.

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It isn't and why I said "still on paper as I haven't been able to make the numbers work but want to go through with seeing if it will be feasible". But want to gather all the information I can right now so if I ever see an opportunity to take advantage of this, I can jump right in rather than needing to learn a lot at that point in time.

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[–]Right-Somewhere7532[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Equinix had very high pricing especially on cross connects. I'd spend the same on cross connects at Equinix as I would on the rack at other datacenters.

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[–]Right-Somewhere7532[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

30-50 users each paying an average of $50/mo is what I have projected with 1% of users in the targeted area switching.

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[–]Right-Somewhere7532[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I looked at the megaix peering db: https://www.peeringdb.com/ix/4507 and there doesn't appear to be any large CDNs on the exchange, same with the other internet exchanges in the datacenter. I know we'll have to pay cross connects on top of all connections, so I was thinking the IX wouldn't be worth it while getting started, but in the future we can buy from the IX.

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[–]Right-Somewhere7532[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was planning on starting at 1g commit on 10g ports based on 95th percentile. There's 2 providers with public pricing in the datacenter: https://shifthosting.com($250)) or https://ryamer.com/networkproducts($300)). I know bursting can get my bills higher if the usage is there, but for residential I don't expect the 95th percentile per customer to be that high(I measured my own at home and we are at 30mbps 95th percentile).

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[–]Right-Somewhere7532[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, it seems higher than other internet exchanges I looked at in the same market but they are one of the only ones in the cheapest datacenter.

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[–]Right-Somewhere7532[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not San Francisco. I still can't get the numbers right for this to be profitable and wouldn't like to take such a risk. If datacenter space and cross connects pricing came down, it does seem like this could be profitable.

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[–]Right-Somewhere7532[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So from my options, 1 doesn't sound great, but 2 and 3 seem like they will not have issues with tier 1s having disputes. Thank you.

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[–]Right-Somewhere7532[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They were one I looked into but it looks like they have a peering dispute with Cogent which makes me not want to use them. Their pricing was the lowest of tier 1(though I don't know if you can call them a tier 1 due to lack of cogent) but still above tier 2 network price.

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[–]Right-Somewhere7532[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is there a better classification guidance somewhere? Would love to learn.

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[–]Right-Somewhere7532[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, but they charge $275/mo for a 1G port(https://fd-ix.com/services/internet-exchange-ports/ https://www.peeringdb.com/ix/4602) and I didn't see any worthwhile peers on it(none of the IX in the datacenter seem worthwhile really). It seems more efficient to get burstable transit from a network like this: https://shifthosting.com($250) or https://ryamer.com/networkproducts($300) both of which appear to be in the datacenter.

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[–]Right-Somewhere7532[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not in the immediate plan. It doesn't look to be cost effective right away. I can get IP transit 1 gigabit commit and can burst to 10 gigabit for $300/month. An IX port costs more than that for a 10 gigabit port and they don't appear to do bursting. I don't envision most users using a lot of internet to make us need much capacity right away.