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by Aeolun 1722 days ago
Huh, all of Imgur costs only +/- $2000/month to store on Backblaze.

That’s not that bad.
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paxys 1722 days ago
Storage is cheap. Bandwidth is usually the killer.
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corobo 1722 days ago
Chuck it behind Cloudflare and take advantage of the Bandwidth Alliance

https://blog.cloudflare.com/bandwidth-alliance/

If you become popular replace the orange cloud with a Worker. Different TOS and the CEO said it's cool to use workers in this way https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20791660

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mark-wagner 1722 days ago
Based on IPs and whois, imgur uses fastly.
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netr0ute 1722 days ago
If you're a Tier 1, then bandwidth is free by definition.
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