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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[-] minorninth@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Would BitTorrent be an option?

There are also ad-supported download sites.

You could offer users a choice: BitTorrent, ads, or $1 for an instant download.

this post was submitted on 23 Jun 2023

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