PaywallBuster

Hi HN, I built https://svpremium.dev after two migrations cut our infrastructure bills far more than I expected.

DNS: ~$150K → ~$5K/year. We’d used NS1 for years, initially for advanced features like filter chains. As we moved our infrastructure to anycast, we ended up mostly using basic DNS and geo routing. But we were still on an annual, prepaid contract sized for peak capacity. Trying to right-size it and remove features only got the quote down to around $100K. We moved to Route 53; our expected bill is around $5K/year.

Images: ~90% cheaper. Devs picked imgix because it was easy and free to try and integrate. As our user-generated content grew, so did the bill: under its old pricing, unique origin images accounted for about 80% of the cost. Moving to Bunny eliminated that charge and reduced bandwidth costs, cutting the total by roughly 90%.

Servers: Of course, everyone knows that hyperscalers (AWS/GCP/Azure) $$$ > DigitalOcean/Vultr $$ > Hetzner $

What vendors am I missing? And where is the familiar, expensive choice worth the premium - and why?

The concept of the website is basically showing the Sillicon Valley / Big Tech / Enterprise premium you're paying for when there's plenty more of options.

storage box -> public internal = slow

storage box -> hetzner vm -> public internet = fast

even to date after scaling to millions of units sold

I've had few weekends where I spend the full week credits over night then have nothing to do for a week

> The Texas Interconnection is tied to the Eastern Interconnection with a 220 MW DC tie near Oklaunion, and a 600 MW DC tie near Monticello, and is tied to NERC (North American Electric Reliability Corporation) systems in Mexico with a 300 MW DC tie near McAllen, and a 100 MW VFT tie near Laredo.[29] There is one AC tie switch in Dayton, Texas

If they held it for 100 years and finally sold it, then profit/loss is realized now

it's plenty good on free tier

as soon as they start adding restrictions / raising prices / etc won't take long to look for alternatives

majority of population of any given country doesn't emigrate ever, even inside EU where it would be extremely easy

(not only for these cambodia originated crimes)

Also keep in mind all the bribes, all the money laundering mentioned in the article by the 100s of affiliated subsidiares of the criminal group all in Cambodia

the big casinos which directly and indirectly support additional laundering

https://www.fincen.gov/system/files/2025-10/Huione-Group-Fin...

https://www.kharon.com/brief/huione-group-cambodia-treasury-...

Every business has revenue / costs

The indictment mentions they were doing 30M/day ~ 10B / year, could be an old message when they were smaller

Guessing that's revenue

They're just one of many organizations in the "industry"

the economy is not that big to start with :)

GDP $49.8 Billion (nominal; 2025)

Some examples

https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/cambodia...

Cambodia's specifically 30-50% of the economy can be directly attributed to scamming plus casinos

This one of the other organizations / major bank used for money laundering directly linked to Hun Sen

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huione_Group

> The company is linked to Cambodia's ruling Hun family, which includes the current prime minister, Hun Manet.[4] His cousin Hun To is a major shareholder and director of Huione Pay

Did you read the article?

The reason to move to ECB would be for ECB garanteed deposits, which many could find safer than their local bank

> Flight to safety would see 13 banks out of cash

this wasn't a swift action overnight

they could be blocking this many accounts on a yearly basis just from scam reports at the police station

or more which seems to be the case recently, but not overnight

this is bad article

take my money!

It ingests 70k lines per second without a sweat

reads are just as fast

I've done it at work, this is on a blacklist of ASNs that require "extra" authentication

all the labor is imported from abroad and live in miserable conditions, no unions or paperwork, just lots of earthworks to be done

- lots of cheap power - deploy 100s of ASICs, let each of them fail as they go

It's a shame that it's too good to be true, until you get blocked and then it takes weeks/months to get the account back

Certainty can't trust one single institution to hold all your funds

Financial statements indicate they selling services at 50% margin, but all the extra sales/admin/R&D add up to a loss

They could cut all of that I guess, it's not like object storage need a lot of innovation and they've already stopped making their own storage servers and