At Hetzner, the bandwidth is unlimited in theory. In practice, there are stories of terminating accounts of those who used too much.

I don't think this project will ever make $2k per month. TBH, I'd be happy it it ever reaches $200 per month. I have to be very careful about what hosting providers to use and CDNs are out of the question.

I don't think it's still offered anywhere in the web interface, but Hetzner offers servers with 10Gbit uplink, with traffic charged at 1€/TB. Depending on resource usage this can be more cost effective than renting multiple servers, and paying for your traffic should prevent account termination for excessive traffic use.

https://docs.hetzner.com/robot/dedicated-server/network/10g-...

If I were running fastly, I'd donate bandwidth so that you would implement turn-key, bring-your-api-key fastly support to your open source setup!

As for other cdns - I remember https://neocities.org/ built their own cdn - but I couldn't immediately find a blog post about the cdn, or something related in their GitHub (unless every node runs part of it, which would make sense, I guess).

That's true: they do sponsor projects, as does cloudflare.

They could use you as a PoC/demo for their serverless stuff. Same with cloudflare.

It's worth it to ask. I can send you the contact for our fastly rep if you'd like.

The problem with hetzner, or any point solution, is that at some point you will saturate your bandwidth - either on the network or storage side.

Maybe it's worth front-ending it with cloudflare free, just to see/measure cache hits/requests/bandwidth?

Cloudflare Free is a good idea, but I'm afraid they'd be the one who limit me before. There is a comment in this thread who did 150 TB+ on Hetzner. I don't believe Cloudflare Free would allow 150 TB, not alone 300 TB in a month (I use two servers currently).

I wonder if other CDNs can help.

In addition to Cloudflare, bunny was on the radar too.

Bunny is also $10-$60/TB/month.

I believe Hetzner should not have any problem with using 100 mbps out of the 1 Gbps on their servers. That's 30 TB/month for free, per server. It'd be $300-$1800 per month on Bunny.

For this use case i would use the bunny volume tier which is $5/TB

That's still an order of magnitude more than what you can get with rented servers. I pay between 0.2 and 0.4 per TB doing nearly 2000TB a month.

Agreed. Getting a dedicated fibre link colocated is a great way to backfill and push the free tiers of CDNS.

Just like the cloud becoming easier to run on your own environments, tons of bandwidth is accessible too.