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Re:Ask HN: Cheapest way to host and serve large-ish files? by sixhobbits on Thursday July 13, 2017 @03:33PM (#14764431)
To add to the other comments about using bittorrent, Academic Torrents [0] is trying to solve this problem. I don't think they're that popular yet, but they aim to address some of the issues with bittorrent already highlighted in the other posts.

[0] http://academictorrents.com/

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Re:Ask HN: Cheapest way to host and serve large-ish files? by ieee8023 on Saturday July 15, 2017 @07:45AM (#14776182)
I think averaging 2TB of data served a day is popular!
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