rgaudin
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2 years ago We've discussed that several times, but it might not have been captured in a ticket:
- We store our images on Wasabi S3 servers.
- Wasabi serves those files over HTTP/s
- Wasabi is a storage solution, not a CDN.
- We use Wasabi because it's much much cheaper than Amazon S3.
- One of the key difference with Amazon is that Wasabi doesn't charge us for bandwidth when we download our images (egress transfer).
- There is though a free egress policy. AFAIK, we've never exceeded our storage in egress (because we store a lot).
- Wasabi doesn't communicate on the bandwidth available to users. We can thus assume it's shared across users of a region.
- All our images are stored on
us-west-1datacenter.
Of course, the user's bandwidth and route congestion between user and the server play a big role but we've seen that frequently, users face slow download speeds, in the orders shown above: ~650KB/s.
The fact that it's roughly the same speed could indicate some sort of throttling on Wasabi side. We don't know if they reduce bandwidth after intensive use – IP? – (they don't mention it on their doc) nor if we've gone over the limits of that policy.
At this point, I'd suggest you contact them to ask why we're so frequently getting limited speeds.
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kelson42
This is sort of related to #266 I guess: there's a user that is located on the US East Coast that tried downloading an image from our servers. It is however pretty slow, eventhough they claim download speeds over 100+ Mbps
I've tried downloading one of their images and actually did get much better DL speeds. Any idea why/how this could be and how we could remediate this?
