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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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[–] jeff@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Lots of VC funding?

Probably. They might have gotten additional discounts off of the advertized price by talking with sales and committing to the service for a year or other ways.

[–] omegastick@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Interesting, I'll have to have a look at doing something like that. If I remember correctly, the CivitAI devs are active on Discord, so maybe I could just ask them directly.

[–] jeff@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

There's no harm in messaging the sales team directly. Whatever deals CivitAI got might not work for you, they might not even be legally allowed to mention specifics. But you can shop around and see what different providers will offer you.