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by 12907835202 957 days ago
I'm abusing the hell out of it right now offering GB+ downloads that I used to use Digital Ocean Spaces for. It's saving me $2000-3000 a month since the switch.

Maybe abuse isn't the right word but definitely making the most.

I am a bit scared about being turned off overnight though.

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Not abuse. Thanks for being a customer. Bandwidth at scale is effectively free.
Just for the sake of enlightening some people. Roughly $1000 per month buys you unlimited/unmetered 10GBe (10GBps) connectivity to your server/rack (do you know what this is?), from a tier-1 network provider.

This translates to roughly 1.2 gigabytes per second (every second of of the month), and 3240 terabytes of data per month - in or out, the choice is yours.

Things scale down as you buy more bandwidth, or commit to a longer contract.

Many would say that $1000 per month is literally "nothing" in terms of costs of service for most real businesses our there, and if you're a happy CSP user, you're probably paying a hell of a lot more than that per month for your infra.

Same here. What's your bandwidth usage? 500TB/month here for less than $4, on track to be serving petabytes in next few months. Feels so abusive.