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I hinted at this in a different thread on a different topic, but it has been 2 days without a reply, so I'll make a new thread for it.
OP:
soja wrote:Does it make sense that the bandwidth scales per core on a vds, but on a more powerful dedi, it is just 5TB? A dedi has 8 cores(1270 and v2) as well as the 8 core vds, plus some overhead, but thwe vds has 3TB more, why?
My question is, is there a reason the bandwdith is lower on an equivalent dedi vs vds. Is it because of it being a stand-alone machine and therefore costing more to be stand alone? On a dual e5-2690 box you would potentially allow 32TB of bandwidth, while dedis are still limited to a lowly 5TB. The reason I ask is we are about to go over 5TB for the 2nd time since we rented the server back in the summer.
Please don't post service questions in the testimonials section. It's not meant as a support forum.
Pricing services is always a complicated business, but originally, the chosen values for bandwidth related to the amount of average bandwidth that VDS customers use versus dedicated server customers use, and the cost of each service to us. Over time, we have been able to lower the cost of our VDSes more because new models of hardware have given us greater overall efficiencies with VDSes (they used to be more expensive than dedicated servers!) -- which makes the bandwidth look like a better deal. With dedicated servers, our hardware costs have remained the same, and while our bandwidth is somewhat less expensive now, we translated that into the current sale on the overall packages instead of increasing the amount given to each customer.
In the next price adjustment, we may be able to give additional bandwidth to dedicated server customers.
