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Ha! Another one :-) !

We created a company that does something similar[^1]. The tech was great and the company is profitable, but the market is really, really tough, with incumbents (read: existent CDNs) playing all sort of "standard business practices"[^2] to keep customers in their more expensive business. And yes, in this line of business you really want the cheapest hardware.

[^1]: Support for transcoding images to WebP, AVIF, JpegXL, and selecting on the flight the best format for serving individual images in a website. Company (ShimmerCat AB, a Swedish registered company) is currently for sale; contact the CEO if you want a bargain[^3], last time I heard ask price was X0 000 USD, with X less than 9. I'm not part of the company in any capacity any longer.

[^2]: Read: standard dirty tricks to suppress the competition.

[^3]: Who is the CEO is public in the Swedish registry of companies.