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Or like $1000-$1500 per month for a dedicated server with 10G unlimited bandwidth. This is as low as it gets.

• Artemis2 10y ago
  Would one server be enough for their load though?
• mark242 10y ago
  Could you run the service off a few OVH dedicated boxes with 3Gbps? Sure, you could, but it's going to be painful, and at that point imgur is the better choice anyways.
  • zzzcpan 10y ago
    No, it's not painful at all. I think multiple boxes on different ISPs is the way they should go, but it's going to be more expensive, than a single cheapest 10G box.
• idp 10y ago
  One server would not be nearly enough. PI is running on 14 dedicated machines, and even this is not enough to handle the load without a caching CDN. Source: I'm with the team.
  • matheweis 10y ago
    If you have the engineering capacity, and your business model can at least sustain some amount of overhead, you can build your own CDN. Look into PhoenixNAP and other similar providers that are located at non-profit peering sites and have reduced bandwidth costs. PhoenixNAP (as the example) will lease you a mid range bare metal server with 16GB/RAM and 100TB of data/mo in the $150.00/mo - $300.00/mo range (depending on your processor needs; well optimized nginx doing just proxying should scream). You can't exceed some unwritten bandwidth cap because you're explicitly paying extra for the 100TB of BW. For 20 caching servers firing 2PB/mo you're looking at around $3000 - $6000/mo... Seems like you could optimize this down with fewer high powered caching servers and paying for the extra bandwidth... is the engineering time and $2500/mo really out of reach? Best of luck.