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European providers benefit from lower cross-connect fees in datacenters and more internet exchanges for easy peering. It's not surprising they offer more bandw
by raid2000 3y ago
European providers benefit from lower cross-connect fees in datacenters and more internet exchanges for easy peering. It's not surprising they offer more bandwidth at the same cost.
- toast0 3y agoThe US has plenty of internet exchanges. And plenty of smaller hosters with cheap bandwidth. Usually located near an internet exchange. It's not like AWS or GCP have locations that are terribly far from major exchanges either.
- raid2000 3y agoYou still have to pay for cross-connects to connect to exchanges in datacenters. > In North America, the median cross-connect price is $300, more than five times higher than $58, which is the median price in Europe.[1] Of course, that difference means nothing to a hyperscaler, but it's led to a difference in pricing culture between the smaller providers. 1: https://www.fiercetelecom.com/telecom/study-u-s-fiber-cross-connect-pricing-higher-than-europe https://www.fiercetelecom.com/telecom/study-u-s-fiber-cross-...