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Originally Posted by PowerCum
I assume you manage your own servers. In my case, one of my companies specializes in high traffic and fault tolerance cluster hosting, so the admin costs are zero.
I have stripped completely the admin costs. But since you run a hosting company you already should know how low are nowadays hardware prices when renting or paying it during 24 months. You already know the bw prices too when buying volume.
Since you don't operate in Europe you have no way to know that OVH (France) or Telefonica (Spain) require 4 Gbit of constant (non peak) traffic to open a direct peering with a datacenter.
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I do know about hardware, bandwidth and peering in the states and in Europe.
Data centers don't do peering themselves nor do any of them sell bandwidth as they by definition are not carriers with any network. Data centers are merely the entity that facilitates a location and often a shared network fabric where peering takes place (such as AMS-IX, DE-CIX, NOTA, PAIX, Equinix sites). Worthwhile "eyeball" networks such as Comcast, ATT, Deutsche Telekom, etc do have strict peering requirements that not only require partners to be in multiple global locations and pass significant traffic in each one, but also have a balanced exchange of inbound and outbound traffic which by definition hosters or content networks don't have since 95% of their traffic flows outbound.
Brad