So I was just renewing a contract with a VPN provider, and paid out for a couple years it works out to somewhere under $2/month.
ISPs around me can run from about $50-$150/month
If I’m putting the major bulk of my traffic over a tunnel that could eat up a sizable chunk of a given connection point for the provider that I’m sure costs more than $2/month to maintain. I would have to assume it would take the combined subscriptions of several users to pay for a given node.
So how does that work as a business model? Unless these VPN providers are getting a steal on their connections it’s hard to envision how they can manage to pay their costs without these nodes being absolutely bottlenecked when a few people start streaming some shows.
ISPs only cost like $10 a month to run.
VPN providers have to manage less hardware
How the hell does all the physical infrastructure an ISP maintains cost that little?
That doesn’t sound like it’s even in the ballpark, given that even the server they might host their website and payment portal on would likely cost more than that in electricity use.
Oh I see what you meant.
Per customer* cost.
Ah, ok. That makes a lot more sense lol. Idk why my dumb ass assumed you meant that was like a total amount
So many were getting subsidies.
The one in my city demanded that the city pay for the infrastructure setup for city wifi, as promise they’ll provide it for us. Then they charged for it.
It depends on the service level. Gigabit is something like $30 minimum just due to the fiberoptic hardware and bandwidth egress.