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They have very reasonably priced KVM instances with unmetered 1G (10G for long-standing customers) bandwidth that you can attach “storage slabs” up to 10TB ($5 per TB/mo). Doubt you will find better value than this for block storage.
You could do this for about $1k/mo with Linode and Wasabi. For FastComments we store assets in Wasabi and have services in Linode that act as an in-memory+on disk LRU cache. We have terabytes of data but only pay $6/mo for Wasabi, because the cache hit ratio is high and Wasabi doesn't charge for egress until your egress is more than your storage or something like that. The rest of the cost is egress on Linode. The ni…
This is still crazy expensive. Cloud providers have really warped people’s expectations.
If it fits your model, WebTorrent[0] can offload a lot of bandwidth to peers. [0] https://github.com/webtorrent/webtorrent
You could do this for about $1k/mo with Linode and Wasabi. For FastComments we store assets in Wasabi and have services in Linode that act as an in-memory+on disk LRU cache. We have terabytes of data but only pay $6/mo for Wasabi, because the cache hit ratio is high and Wasabi doesn't charge for egress until your egress is more than your storage or something like that. The rest of the cost is egress on Linode. The ni…
> You could do this for about $1k/mo with Linode and Wasabi. This is still crazy expensive. Cloud providers have really warped people’s expectations.
Actually, since the Akami acquisition it would be even cheaper.
$800/mo to serve 100TB with fairly high bandwidth and low latency from cold storage is a good deal IMO. I know companies paying millions a year to serve less than a third of that through AWS when you include compute, DB, and storage.
Hetzner auctions have a 4x 6TB server for €39.70/mo. Throw that in RAID10 and you'll have 12TB usable space with > 300TB bandwidth.
Storage Boxes are even cheaper, 20 EUR (or less if you’re outside Europe) for 10TB + unlimited bandwidth.
There’s always a limit, that might be measured in TB, PB or EB, and may be what you determine practical or not, but it’s there
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If we are talking about serving files publicly I'd go with the €40 server for flexibility (the storage boxes are kind of limited), but still get a €20 Storage Box to have a backup of the data. Then add more servers as bandwidth and redundancy requires. But if splitting your traffic across multiple servers is possible you can also get the €20 storage box and put a couple Hetzner Cloud servers with a caching reverse pr…
> even if you factor in the cost of your time you should come out ahead There is always the hidden cost of not spending time on activities that are core to your business (if this is indeed for a business) that would make multiples of the money CF costs you.