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by jonahx 886 days ago
"Some of this cost is for hosting ziglang.org. Since our free AWS credits have expired we have plans to switch to Fastly which should save about $500/month."

Just curious why a static site would cost so much even on AWS? Would it be many downloads of large-ish binary files?
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AndyKelley 886 days ago
Yes it's primarily bandwidth costs for the binary tarballs. People fetch directly from ziglang.org in their CI scripts and don't use caching. It would be nice if people would try to use caching and mirrors more.
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anotherhue 886 days ago
Hat tip to you sir. May I suggest checking out Cloudflare R2 - they don't charge for egress.
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