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Australia bandwidth for extremely cheap
I'm in need of Australia bandwidth for extremely cheap, ideally 50TB to 100TB+, but with one caveat: the end users are only going to be on iinet/internode/tpg and concentrated on one or two cities. Is there any kind of way to purchase "domestic bandwidth only" or "free zone" style peering-only arrangements?
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Make a friend, put a server in his house.
Interesting question, I've wondered the same thing. Traffic out of AU is expensive, but within might not be.
Summoning fellow Aussie and networking guru @trewq
Edit: the cheapest I've seen is OVHcloud in Sydney unlimited 250mbit for 8 AUD/month
Yeah admittedly it is a bit of odd question. It would be for streaming some nonprofit events and providing downloads of lectures and videos, no copyright/piracy related.
It would be uploaded from an iinet connection, so theoretically no international bandwidth at all would be necessary - if it could all run through peering connections that would be fine. It would be even more amazing if going through peering meant it wouldn't count toward the end users bandwidth quotas (ex iinet's mobile 8GB/m only), as a lot of the viewers will be on a tight budget and on the lowest data plans available, but that is probably a long shot.
The fine print OVH: For VPS hosted in Sydney and Singapore : 1TB traffic/month for the VPS range “Starter” and “Value”, 2TB/month for the VPS range “Essential”, 3TB/month for the VPS range “Comfort” and 4TB/month for the VPS range “Elite” . Bandwidth is reduced to 10Mbps once the monthly quota is exceeded.
Yeah, someone just pointed out that fine print. FUCK YOU OVH. lol
When it comes to needing lots of bandwidth for AU, I usually end up settling on Los Angeles or basically anywhere on the west coast of the USandA where you can often find (but increasingly rarer) unlimited gigabit.. if nothing suitable comes up within AU that might be the next best option.
It's very rare to see that kind of bandwidth system, unfortunately. Don't know if it exist in Aussie. The only country I know that have that kind of bandwidth system is Indonesia (worked with clients there before).
International bandwidth are similarly expensive there, but there are local exchanges which are way way cheaper, even free. I can get 10gig domestic bandwidth for $250/mo, worth of 80mbps international bandwidth.
Maybe APAC providers can give an insight on why don't they provide cheaper bw for local exchanges/connection
Here in New Zealand you can get a 10Gbit port on AKLIX for ~$250USD/mo and then peer with anyone/everyone for free, also you can get dirty cheap domestic traffic but its hard thing to sell and market a VPS with XXXX traffic caps domestically, and YYYY caps internationally and even worse for the user (even more so on a low-end market) to know what exact allowance they need domestically and internationally.
That being said, some VPS providers in NZ used to still do (https://www.vpscity.co.nz/vps-servers) offer "unlimited domestic" traffic and "XXGB per month" international traffic.
For the use case, Vimeo might make more sense? https://vimeo.com/upgrade
Added later: Or Cloudflare Stream.https://www.cloudflare.com/products/cloudflare-stream/
Raspberry Pi Foundation is already using them- maybe CF have a special pricing for Nonprofits?
Don't be mad at OVH, be mad at the Aussie monopoly.
Which one? Telstra or NBN?
https://www.serversaustralia.com.au/products/colocation/p-co-01r--1-1-1 and negotiate data deal?
Worth tracking this down from the library as it's out of print - it's a good read as to how/why things are what they are at the moment: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12177695-wired-brown-land