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by mattbillenstein 2438 days ago
Fairly large optimization if you're smaller and a large amount of your data out is cachable is to run a varnish cache on some of the clouds that give you "free" bandwidth.

ie a $20/mo instance on linode gets you 4TB of transfer -- $0.005 per gig. Scale enough of these in various DCs around the world and you have a pretty cheap self-hosted CDN.

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a $20/mo old server from hetzner gives you unlimited 1Gbps - thats 324TB /mo
For $1.67/mo, you can get unlimited 1Gbps here:

https://servercheap.net/crm/cart.php?gid=10

Or if you don't trust "unlimited", Hetzner sells CX11 with 20TB/mo for 2.96 eur/mo

https://www.hetzner.com/cloud

Good deal - I do most of my work in the US, I don't know of a similar deal here.
Lots of places that have 1gbps bare metal unmetered boxes for ~$200/mo, too. At 10% utilization that's about $0.005/gig.
any in the US?
e.g. https://www.wholesaleinternet.net/dedicated/

$20/mo for 100TB metered ($0.0002/gigabyte). $120/mo for 200TB metered ($0.0006/gigabyte). $170/mo for 1gbps unmetered ($0.00085/gigabyte at 200TB, $0.00052/gigabyte at full saturation one way).

or https://client.layeronline.com/cart.php?a=confproduct&i=0

$199/mo 1 gbps unmetered.

Plenty. Google it or trawl offers on Webhostingtalk.