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What are the best alternative/solution to host my data exceeding 4GB, other than DigitalOcean?
I'm running a open source 3dicon library 3dicons.co 
#3dicons
For the past three years, I've been paying around $50-$60 per month for bandwidth and hosting on DigitalOcean. However, I noticed a sudden increase in my billing costs, with last month's bill rising to $125, and this month, it's already exceeded $150 in just 15 days. I'm seeking recommendations on how to transition from DigitalOcean to a more reliable service, ideally staying within a $60 per month budget.
3dicons v2
I'm working on version 2, where I'll offer single file downloads to potentially reduce bandwidth costs. Currently, users download a 1.5GB zip file with a single click even they need just one icon. I'm considering using Supabase for this. Is this a good solution, or are there better alternatives?
Thanks
For the past three years, I've been paying around $50-$60 per month for bandwidth and hosting on DigitalOcean. However, I noticed a sudden increase in my billing costs, with last month's bill rising to $125, and this month, it's already exceeded $150 in just 15 days. I'm seeking recommendations on how to transition from DigitalOcean to a more reliable service, ideally staying within a $60 per month budget.
3dicons v2
I'm working on version 2, where I'll offer single file downloads to potentially reduce bandwidth costs. Currently, users download a 1.5GB zip file with a single click even they need just one icon. I'm considering using Supabase for this. Is this a good solution, or are there better alternatives?
Thanks
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Put the files on Cloudflare R2: it's free. They don't charge for outbound traffic, just the number of GB's you're storing. Free tier is 10GB storage, 1million requests.
It's S3 compatible, so you can also do presigned URLs to make sure anyone downloading the files are authenticated first.
Thank you very much. I didn’t cloudflare have free bandwidth. I’ll move to this.
Agree with Martijn - R2 is good and cheap for this right now.
As for Supabase, I mean yeah any backend will work if you want to split the downloads.
Any hetzner VPS will do?
You mean for hosting the backend?
Any VPS of any kind can do that, yeah.
If you're looking for something super simplistic, maybe PocketBase would be an even easier step than Supabase: pocketbase.io/
Thanks Nik for suggestion 🙌
I think the best option to make v2 and that will solve your problem.
Digital Ocean Storage costs $5 per 250GB and 1TB of bandwidth.
If users download 1+Mb file instead of 1,5GB you save money and users be more happy too
Thanks Evhen!
Yeah that's the plan. Will test both R2 and digital ocean once v2 release. Currently moved to R2 as Martijn suggested.
Update: Thank you guys for suggestions. I switched to Cloudflare and it's almost 1 month. Also, added gumroad link as fallback and it generated some revenue as well. Here short story story.vjy.me/14