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onionisafruit • today at 12:39 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

> internet traffic, especially egress traffic, still is absurdly expensive

Are they paying for significant egress? I would assume they primarily serve static files that can be on a cdn


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mschuster91 • today at 1:09 PM

> I would assume they primarily serve static files that can be on a cdn

And someone gotta pay that CDN bill too.

On top of that come all the requests from CI pipelines that don't have a repository proxy at all or have it misconfigured, the AI scrapers and other bots, or DDoS skiddies wanting to take responsibility for taking down a major hoster.

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