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Re:What does Unsplash cost to run? by revelation on Sunday November 06, 2016 @08:41PM (#12888227) 

  While Heroku charges a small premium over other hosting services
The "small premium" is not small at all.
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Re:What does Unsplash cost to run? by cgag on Sunday November 06, 2016 @08:51PM (#12888262)
The amount they're spending on heroku is relatively low compared to the cost of the 150TB of bandwidth their using from imgix.
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Re:What does Unsplash cost to run? by revelation on Sunday November 06, 2016 @08:55PM (#12888278)
I guess that's the next point then, if you're spending that much on traffic you should probably look at just buying dedicated bandwidth.

I'm sure it doesn't have the same awesome CDN latency and I'm also sure it doesn't matter one bit for multi megabyte images.

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