[n2d4]

Using the pricing from your other comment and the numbers from the parent, if I estimate correctly, Storj comes in at about $8k/month? That's cheaper than AWS (considering there are no CDN costs), roughly on the same level as Cloudflare and Backblaze, but still more than the entirety of NixOS Foundation's (monthly) incoming funds in 2022.

[jtolds]

According to https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixos-foundations-financial-su..., they have 450TB and 29.5TB of S3 egress/month. By my math, assuming the Nix Foundation goes in through our front door, talks to no sales people, and pays list price, that's $2k/month.

[n2d4]

You would replace the Fastly CDN with Storj, correct? Your link mentions 1500TB of Fastly traffic, which would cost $12k with Storj. Not sure if this is related to parent's 3TB/day number, but I went with that when I estimated the $8k.

I think the best cloud solution might be something like Storj + Fastly or Cloudflare end-to-end. But I'm really curious how much could be chopped off if you tried to solve this on-prem.

[jtolds]

Storj + Fastly is genuinely a pretty good combo. There are certainly some things Fastly does that we don't do (besides being more specifically a CDN, they also have compute@edge, etc). We have a good relationship with Fastly (e.g. https://docs.fastly.com/en/guides/log-streaming-storj-dcs)

But yeah, I don't know how the Nix Foundation is getting their Fastly traffic paid for, maybe that's in/out of scope. Certainly they should keep Fastly if it makes the overall thing cheaper. Having a distributed origin (us) to dedicated edge cache (Fastly) makes for a strong distribution story.