TLDR

• Cloud is "Cheap in, expensive out"
• You're getting ripped off on bandwidth.
• If it doesn't matter for your site, good for you.

AWS:
$0.09/GB

Google Cloud:
$0.09-0.20/GB

Fastly: $0.12 - $0.28/GB

Neocities Rates:
$0.00125 - $0.01/GB

Not a big deal? Consider this:

Let's Convert That...

1000Mbps connection
==
192,000 GB/mo

192,000 GB (1000Mbps)

AWS:
$14,734.14/mo

Google Cloud:
$15,677/mo

Neocities:
$240/mo - $1,920.00/mo

... or a 61x - 7x difference

Stockholm Syndrome:

• "Your use case is different"
• "This is PREMIUM BANDWIDTH (TM)"
• "Just use CloudFlare, it's FREE!"

"Premium bandwidth"

"I'm using Kubernetes to save on costs"

"React cut a couple of servers for us"

"Serverless Architecture"

Just Stop It

Tooling isn't your problem. Costs are.

It's not just bad for your wallet.

It's bad for the internet.

TLDR:

IP Transit goes away

Replaced with CDNs/Clouds run by a couple huge companies

Why this is bad

• Centralized gatekeepers
• Less organizational autonomy (IP addresses, etc.)
• More restrictive services

Solutions

Go with providers that charge you market rates for bandwidth:

• OVH / Hetzner / etc.
• VPS services (Vultr, Digital Ocean)
• Voxility
• Rent racks in datacenters (Pittock Building) & buy transit directly (Cogent, HE, NTT, etc.)

Fun tip: run traceroute on "adult entertainment" sites

If you really want to get hardcore:
buy IP addresses, learn how use route them (BGP)

The Distributed Web

Community powered web sites that have no central point of failure.

Filecoin

A way to incentivize it.

I'm done.

thank you