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by tiffanyh 1713 days ago
Seems like a person could create an unbelieving cheap podcast hosting business (Simplecast, Transistor.fm, etc) on the back of R2.

For those unaware, the primary infrastructure cost of these businesses is serving up mp3.

Much like what YouTube does for video.
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klaaz0r 1713 days ago
Exactly this! with https://reason.fm I am going to try and see if I can migrate our services to R2, right now it's pretty doable with S3 or GCloud storage at scale but we can definitely get our costs down with R2!
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corobo 1713 days ago
I'm aiming to do exactly that with hosted.fm as it happens :)

Using B2 and CF workers to keep costs low currently but if R2 is as good as it sounds I have no reason to write any overages billing code. Lovely!

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