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What's the most cost-effective way to serve lots of large files (lemmy.ml)
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I'm looking at starting a service that involves hosting a lot of LLM models, which are often going to be 16GB+ (compressed). I did a bit of searching for cloud storage providers with cheap egress, and the cheapest I could find is $0.01 per GB, which would still be $0.16+ per download.

How do sites like Huggingface or CivitAI do it? Lots of VC funding?

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[-] Akisamb@programming.dev 11 points 1 year ago

R2 by cloudfare does not charge egress costs. It's 0.015$/GB/month for storage. Read operations are 0.36$ per million.

I do have a hard time believing that they will remain this cheap though, but who knows.

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