I run a SaaS on Google Cloud functions and the bandwidth cost from somebody linking our homepage in a HN comment is often 2x the cost to run the actual service.
Which product? Cloud Storage??
Is there Cloud CDN (or some other CDN) on top? If not, it's not surprising. With a proper CDN setup (say with Cloudflare) that number should be much lower than that of Netlify. Particularly with Cloudflare since your CDN cost is almost 0.
FYI Netlify doesn't work well with Cloudflare. That's the reason why it's so expensive as a standalone option.
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FYI: 300 TB egress at standard GCP pricing is already more than $17k.
Google Cloud bandwidth is stupidly overpriced.
I run a SaaS on Google Cloud functions and the bandwidth cost from somebody linking our homepage in a HN comment is often 2x the cost to run the actual service.
Which product? Cloud Storage?? Is there Cloud CDN (or some other CDN) on top? If not, it's not surprising. With a proper CDN setup (say with Cloudflare) that number should be much lower than that of Netlify. Particularly with Cloudflare since your CDN cost is almost 0.
FYI Netlify doesn't work well with Cloudflare. That's the reason why it's so expensive as a standalone option.
https://community.netlify.com/t/how-do-i-use-cloudflare-dns-...
I'm talking about regular network egress. CDN egress is cheaper, but still $13k+ and more depending on destination/cache hit rate/etc.