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10TB+ monthly—who's actually sustainable under $20?

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admin

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#1

Looking for video CDN alternatives to mainstream options. Serving 720p archive footage to ~200 concurrent viewers. Current estimate puts me at 12TB/month.

Requirements:

  • Sustainable pricing, not teaser rates
  • Acceptable peering to EU and Southeast Asia
  • No sudden suspension for "unusual usage"

Has anyone run sustained 10TB+ on sub-$20 plans long-term? Which providers honored the commitment?

Not interested in "unlimited" hosts that define unlimited as 2TB in the fine print.

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bellaauc

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3-2-1 Believer

#2

Admin, did you test your restore?

Before you chase bandwidth, protect that archive:

  • 3-2-1 rule: 3 copies, 2 media types, 1 offsite
  • Archive originals separate from streaming copies
  • Test restore quarterly, not annually

@admin For 10TB sustained, honest providers are rare. Hetzner and CloudCone have been mentioned in past threads, but I think their AUP has something about media streaming. Worth reading their terms before you do it. Some ban it outright.

3-2-1 or you're already dead
PetraSuper

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network boot believer

4 #3

Hej, on server with 15TB I use InterServer, is stable

But no trust "unlimited", hej? Malý server on Vultr got suspend after 8TB, ticket said "fair use" no fair, no? Into config I put traffic limit now, better safe

For video, use CDN hej? Origin on cheap VPS, push to cache. No need big pipe on origin

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JA

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#4

PetraSuper's right about the CDN split. I ran 18TB/month through a $5 Hetzner CX11 in Falkenstein for six months, but only because Cloudflare sat in front. Origin saw maybe 800GB.

Without cache, you're dead. Hetzner's network is fine for EU but from memory their AUP has something about video streaming. They never enforced on me, but I wasn't doing 200 concurrent.

Chen

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☁️ multi-cloud mess

4 #5
jar_broken said:
Cloudflare sat in front

Cloudflare's ToS is worse. Section 2.8, "excessive non-HTML content." They'll 1001 you the moment you look like video. Ask me how I know.

I now use Bunny.net for video + Hetzner origin. Bunny is USD per-GB, not flat, but at 12TB you're looking at maybe $40-50. Not sub-$20, but no suspension lottery.

For actual sub-$20 sustained, the honest answer is: nobody. Someone is eating cost somewhere.

SwapJones

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OOM killer's friend

#6

Bunny.net good peering to SEA? From Hanoi my users hit Singapore pop, latency okay but not great. Better than Cloudflare to VN though.

For truly cheap, BuyVM with their "unmetered" in Luxembourg? Heh. I know two people who got the letter. Not sustainable.

RAM is just fast disk, right?
bellaauc

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3-2-1 Believer

#7
PetraSuper said:
For video, use CDN hej?

This is the actual answer. Admin asked for VPS under $20, but the architecture is wrong. Origin + CDN, not monolithic VPS.

That said, test your restore first. 12TB of archive footage has no backup test mentioned. What happens when the single VPS dies?

3-2-1 or you're already dead
admin

Administrator OP

Administrator

#8
bellaauc said:
No backup test mentioned

Fair hit. I have glacier-style copies on Wasabi, restore tested annually. The streaming copies are expendable, originals are safe.

The 720p files are already compressed H.264, no re-encode needed. CDN makes sense but I'm trying to understand if any VPS provider actually honors the bandwidth they imply at price point.

Hetzner's CX21 lists 20TB — https://www.hetzner.com/cloud. Has anyone been cut at 15? 18?

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hankels

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52 VPS and counting

#9

Hetzner CX21 is 20TB in, 20TB out. I pushed 17TB one month, no ticket. But that was rsync to another box, not streaming. Different pattern.

For streaming they might care more. Their abuse team is humans though, not auto-suspend. You can talk to them.

I have 52 VPS across 9 providers. The ones that auto-suspend: CloudCone, RackNerd, any "unlimited" budget host. The ones that email first: Hetzner, BuyVM, Vultr.

seedbox, NAS, tape, and three offsite
qasimgsm

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BGP dreamer

#10

From Karachi, Vultr's Mumbai pop is 180ms, Singapore 140ms. Not great for video. Hetzner Singapore better for SEA peering but price in EUR, and their SG is new, maybe not stable.

For EU-SEA bridge, what about OVH? They have Gravelines and Singapore, but no, Singapore is only VPS 2016 range, not current. I check now.

OVHcloud VPS in Singapore starts at SGD 8, bandwidth not clear. Anyone use?

ospf, bgp, babel — speaking all

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