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by JohnTHaller 4679 days ago
From a quick look, SourceForge pushed out about 19TB of FileZilla bandwidth in the last 30 days in terms of binary downloads. I'm not sure any projects on GitHub are pushing that kind of bandwidth for binary downloads yet. Or are they?

In terms of PortableApps.com, I don't think we'd be a good fit for GitHub since we're a project that's a conglomeration of apps made portable (for USB and cloud use). I think we're around 90TB of bandwidth for downloads in the last month for our open source apps via SourceForge (some of our open source apps the publishers self-host like Inkscape and LibreOffice so we don't push those through our SourceForge project).
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hash9 4679 days ago
You can get 100TB/month for under €100 on Leaseweb. Couldn't you raise this in donations each month? I'm sure with your traffic it'd be possible.
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JohnTHaller 4679 days ago
I generally don't trust anything that sells 'unmetered' bandwidth as it nearly always ends in disaster. Their metered accounts seem to be 10TB for $95 which is about what we're paying for freeware downloads now (we can't host those on SourceForge, of course).
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