Slicehost: $3,000 (0.30/GB !!! WTF are they smoking)
Amazon: $1,250 (Assume 5TB in, 5TB out, in US)
Linode: $1,000 (0.10/GB Good for VPS, but still crazy)
Typical dedicated server: $99 with 10TB included.
Amazon is ridiculously expensive. I know it's really "hip" to use it, but it's throwing money away. I guess if it's VC's money then who cares if you get to say "We're cloud hosted!!!".
Bandwidth pricing on VPS hosts is just crazily expensive.
10TB/month averages out to 32Mbps. From what I've heard, try using anywhere near that on your typical "all you can eat" provider and you'll either be QoS'd enough to never achieve it or you'll suddenly be in violation of some finely printed Terms of Service.
For example, lets say we need 10TB of transfer.
Amazon is ridiculously expensive. I know it's really "hip" to use it, but it's throwing money away. I guess if it's VC's money then who cares if you get to say "We're cloud hosted!!!".Bandwidth pricing on VPS hosts is just crazily expensive.