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by ne0lithic 4487 days ago
With most of this being bandwidth costs, it seems like switching to a host like Digital Ocean would make more sense here. The bandwidth costs are a fraction of Amazon's in comparison.

As for the CDN, switching to something like Cloudflare might make more sense rather than relying on Cloudfront. At the least, there's a "US and EU only" option for edge locations to use which si considerably cheaper than the default option of all edge locations.
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mje__ 4486 days ago
Wow, as someone who uses rubygems all day and is not in "US and EU only", I'm glad you're not involved in this project.
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jtrtoo 4486 days ago
I presume you mentioned Cloudflare because of their "unlimited bandwidth". That comes with some constraints as to the use/application: https://www.cloudflare.com/terms.html

It's possible RubyGems.org would be classified under one of the "not really allowed here" terms.

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ceejayoz 4486 days ago
> With most of this being bandwidth costs, it seems like switching to a host like Digital Ocean would make more sense here. The bandwidth costs are a fraction of Amazon's in comparison.

That's just replacing bandwidth costs with build-and-run-your-own-CDN costs.

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