Home internet is so fast now and hardware is so cheap and powerful its a good solution. It amazes me how expensive aws compared to having your own hardware.
Home internet is so fast now and hardware is so cheap and powerful its a good solution. It amazes me how expensive aws compared to having your own hardware.
I wish it was that fast. Somehow in the past 15 years prices for a 10/100/200Mbit have stayed exactly the same, only Gigabit came down a smidge to around 70 euro/month now. As if all the hardware and switches hadn't evolved at all.
And for some reason, nowadays over 5G you get pretty much the exact same speed/price combos as for DSL or cable, only with less guarantees.
It highly depends on where you live.
I can get gigabit for about €32,50 a month. 2gbps for about €40. Unfortunately, the cheap ISP that offers these rates doesn't have IPv6 so I'll stay with my current one. €70/mo would get me 4gbps symmetrical with another ISP. All of those include a WiFi 7 capable router, of course.
Prices have increased, but high prices are a local problem. The €35 price for cheap gigabit would equate to about €20 in 2000, so I think prices have stagnated alright, but speeds have evolved a lot since then.
Kinda off topic, but I'm staying on a 500 mbps pipe for now... simply because I don't see the reason for more.
I could get up to 2 Gbit by making a phone call to my curent ISP but why?
May I ask which country that is?
I don't think they are ever going to run gigabit over to me if they haven't by this point.
That's the other point, fibre can be a bit cheaper but not even all 10 year old apartment blocks have fibre run in to building??? If you wanna get it installed that'll be at least a couple hundred extra
More than that. When I called about it they made it seem like I had to pay for the entire installation from wherever the nearest fiber line was all the way to my place. They quoted me a couple thousand dollar price and I never asked again because I don't even own this place.
It's not that expensive everywhere. In the UK I can get 1000/1000Mbps for £29 a month, and 8000/8000Mbps for £99 a month.
with 30% inflation in the euro area over the past 10 years... the price has maybe gone down in real terms by staying the same?
And how much has equipment gotten faster/cheaper? Tad bit over 30% I'd say, on the side of 10x? 50x? 100x?
the cost of actually getting the equipment into use (laying down new fiber etc) probably went up though.
70 euro a month for gigabit? That's a great price! And way, way, way, more than you need for self hosting a website (maybe more for other things?). I've hosted my .com website from home since the late 90s and anything faster than a couple megabits is just fine .My current 80/10 megabits connection from comcast is $115/mo and has a 1.2TB data transfer cap with $10 per 50GB over. Even with such a terrible, expensive, exploitive ISP I host my dot com from home just fine.
Trying to host from wireless would probably not work so well. Do they even give you a real ipv4? And even if so, you're round trip time is inherently randomized which leads to tcp backoff and slowdowns in this context.
Home internet is only fast downstream.
Upstream is usually awful.
(At least in the USA.)
Verizon FiOS has had symmetric gigabit service available for well over a decade for a reasonable price.
Where in the USA are you?
Anywhere outside of a tech hub, usually. The cable TV providers all had a lot of downstream (to carry television), and very little upstream, and they have largely done little to fix that state of affairs.
Except for fiber, for all providers I'm aware.
My home fiber is symmetric gigabit in Seattle, for $65/mo