> On Sep 19, 2018, at 00:44 , Christopher Morrow <morrowc.li...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 12:28 PM Owen DeLong <o...@delong.com > <mailto:o...@delong.com>> wrote: > > I’d argue that the difference between reasonable (≤$500 one-time and ≤$50 > MRC) and $300 MRC is within range of argument, but I cannot see any way in > which an argument can be made that $5840 MRC is not a distortion in that same > circumstance. > > > captive audiences (or those which view themselves as captive) are so much > fun... :( > I imagine that 'away from Telaviv' in the 20ms arena is .... actually pretty > hard to find, right? > If you wanted to offer 'local' content locally (and offer it quickly/fastly > (ha!)) it's probably pretty hard in that part of the world, right? Whether it > actually 'costs' that much to pull a x-connect and maintain that x-connect is > probably not as important as 'gosh it's really hard to be 'close' to > <isreali city>' right? which is what they are capitalizing on here. > > Hank, how far away is the next closest large network metro ? Riyad? Rome? > Sofia?... I mean, it's all 'far' from 'isreal' (or really any part of the > world) to the next decent network POP :( >
At those prices, it doesn’t take a lot of XCs to justify the cost of building an additional datacenter. Owen
