[winrid]

You could do this for about $1k/mo with Linode and Wasabi.

For FastComments we store assets in Wasabi and have services in Linode that act as an in-memory+on disk LRU cache.

We have terabytes of data but only pay $6/mo for Wasabi, because the cache hit ratio is high and Wasabi doesn't charge for egress until your egress is more than your storage or something like that.

The rest of the cost is egress on Linode.

The nice thing about this is we gets lots of storage and downloads are fairly fast - most assets are served from memory in userspace.

Following thread to look for even cheaper options without using cloudflare lol

[qeternity]

> You could do this for about $1k/mo with Linode and Wasabi.

This is still crazy expensive. Cloud providers have really warped people’s expectations.

[winrid]

Well, for us it's actually really cheap because we really just want the compute. The bandwidth is just a bonus.

Actually, since the Akami acquisition it would be even cheaper.

$800/mo to serve 100TB with fairly high bandwidth and low latency from cold storage is a good deal IMO. I know companies paying millions a year to serve less than a third of that through AWS when you include compute, DB, and storage.

[qeternity]

Fine, but now you’re changing the comparison. Spending millions on compute with low bandwidth requirements doesn’t make it stupid. It probably still is, but that’s a different conversation.

[winrid]

lol no, it sure is. But OP didn't give a price range or durability requirements...

[winrid]

You could do it through interserver for $495/mo (5 20gb sata disks, 150tb free bandwidth). 10gbps link. 128gb ram for page cache.

Backups probably wouldn't be much more.

[winrid]

Actually, with Interserver and Wasabi you could probably get it under $100/mo.

You could just run Varnish with the S3 backend. Popular files will be cached locally on the server, and you'll pay a lot less for egress from Wasabi.

[winrid]

EDIT it would be ~$500 through linode + wasabi. I was thinking of included bandwidth, but if you just pay overages it's cheaper.