What's a good hosting option for a media server?
We've probably all seen the horror stories about AWS by this point:
- Why S3 is so expensive?
- s3 => data transfer out is costing me
- S3 transfer cost reduction
- Am I doing something wrong? Why is RDS so expensive?
- Why is AWS so outrageously expensive?
- How much are you being billed for your AWS services?
Azure and Google are slightly cheaper, but suffer from the same kinds of issues. My current host, Digital Ocean is cheaper still and I love its UX, but it still charges $0.01/GB (i.e. $10/TB) for outgoing bandwidth past its initial monthly quota.
BTW, @csallen, what's up with this super cramped, narrow post form?
Can anyone share hosting providers more suitable for serving audio, video and other sizeable downloads?
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It's better than AWS but still the same transfer prices as what my current host, Digital Ocean, charges for overage ($0.01/GB or $10/TB).
The crucial factor is outbound bandwidth fees. At the same time, I'm not even remotely close to my CPU or memory capacity.