On: Ask HN: Cost of servers & bandwidth

[staunch]

If you mean serving audio files 100k times (once per "user") then it's not expensive unless the files are especially large. If you're serving over HTTP then use high performance web server (like nginx or lighttpd) and a dedicated server.

I highly recommend ServerBeach myself -- especially if you're going to use any significant amount of bandwidth. For $75/mo you can have a dedicated server and 1200 GB/mo transfer.

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[anotherjesse → staunch]

I also recommend checking serverbeach. My box for userscripts.org runs on a $180/mo box (the extra cost is for 3GB of RAM).

I'm currently doing 50k visitors a day and dark traffic of 10x that - averaging 1.2Mbps without a problem.

You can even get 10Mbps or 100Mbps unmetered for $100/mo and $1000/mo roughly