[1/2] It seems like one side effect of standard server stacks being so slow is that when you go to rent a dedicated server, you get something with massively more horsepower than its uplink could really use.
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[2/2] Pricing out one server provider, their _lowest_ horsepower machines ran from ~$60/mo for 86 cycles _per byte_ to ~$130/mo for 217 cycles per byte of traffic. Granted, HTTPS takes some of that away by being spectacularly awful, but still. 217 cycles for every single byte!
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I guess this is just the next level version of arithmetic is cheap, I/O is expensive. If you actually serve data efficiently, the cost of the server is peanuts relative to all the infrastructure it has to travel through to potentially get to the other side of the planet.
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If we assume bandwidth is priced properly, then this is definitely true, from what I've seen. You can get massive amounts of computation for very low prices, but it is extremely hard to get any bandwidth without paying a lot.
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