Re:The $5 Plan
by jareklupinski on Friday July 07, 2023 @12:49PM
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i too would like to find a service where I could host ~500GB of files and cheaply send random subsets of them (~.5GB each session) to random users all over the world without it becoming >90% of the service's costs
i'm starting to think the few years of really cheap/free egress rates were actually an accounting mistake, and the true cost of moving those bits is finally becoming apparent to datacenter accountants
but i may be naive.
You should look at Hetzner [0]. They offer unmetered bandwidth on their dedicated servers with a 1Gbps uplink (I personally run a Tor relay on one averaging a sustained 15+Mbps over the past year), idem for their "Storage Share" offering, and 20TB/month at 1Gbps on their cloud VMs.
I'm not affiliated with them, just a happy customer.
Railway is far from alone in doing this, but I really find it frustrating how much most hosts overcharge for bandwidth. $100/TB of egress basically kills any P2P video chat apps (even if they rely on WebRTC and only need TURN), screen-sharing, and many other classes of interesting services one could build. It's considerably more expensive than what I paid serving audio files from a WordPress site over a decade ago, despite bandwidth being much cheaper in 2023 and media files of all sorts being larger.