[mantoto]

You did something wrong if that cost you 400$ a month

[beatgammit]

We don't know how much content OP had stored. Do you know how much public domain, 4k cat videos exist on the internet? I'm sure with enough storage, a proof-of-concept VPS with cloud storage could run that much per month.

[kempbellt]

I had about 15TB of content stored in readily available cloud storage. This was the largest cost.