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Also moving bits is free. Just throw your static content on a non-greedy host.

• acdha 5y ago
  It's only free for a small amount of content or when you're ad supported. If you get significant traffic or care about performance, someone needs to pay for it.
  • withinboredom 5y ago
    No one pays for bits moving around on the internet, for the most part. See “peering internet.” Big companies just charge you for it to prevent it from being abused.
    • acdha 5y ago
      You might want to learn a bit more about how peering works. It's definitely not free even if the major players have reciprocal agreements — just ask Netflix how free that was when Comcast wanted to double-charge them.
      • withinboredom 5y ago
        My (poorly made) point was that at normal (not-unicorn) scale, bandwidth is practically free, or should be.