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Transmission (TB/month)
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www473792604
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wiki3363600.1
(much less than .1TB/month)
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$/GB$/TBBaseTotalDisk costBW costBase Disk inclBase BW incl
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dreamhost$0.00$0.00$11.00$11.00$0.00$0.0099999999
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digitalocean $5$0.10$10.00$5.00$38.27$2.27$31.00251
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digitalocean $20$0.10$10.00$20.00$21.00$0.00$1.00804
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do $5+spaces$0.02$10.00$10.00$41.00$0.00$31.002501
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OVH$0.14$0.00$8.98$15.98$7.00$0.00109999
Note: $4.79 + $4.19 for 1 snapshot backup
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OVH SSD$0.09$0.00$4.79$8.18$3.39$0.00109999
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Right now we rely on Steve Padnos for our main website hosting. This is at DreamHost. Usually it's fine, and it doesn't cost Steve anything to let us host a site on his plan, but long term it doesn't feel sustainable since he is not an active member of the community anymore. This spreadsheet gathers some estimated prices for moving the hosting to other sites.

DreamHost and OVH look like leading contenders, because DreamHost offers "unlimited everything" (but it's bad old shared hosting, where a bunch of UNIX users operate within the same userspace). OVH has costs for storage, but not for bandwidth. DigitalOcean is where I have the most experience (our forum hosting is there now), but their pricing is the highest of all the ones I actually calculated out.

Atlantic dot net (the other cloud hosting service I actually have experience with) is unattractive because they don't let you choose storage tier independently of CPU tier, and their language about bandwidth overages is REALLY hinky. I didn't even include their numbers here.

There are many other choices in hosting space, and I can't investigate them all. Amazon I specifically suspect will be higher cost than even DO.
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The data transfer statistics above for www reflect around 200 days of logs. The disk storage reflects current values (but was about 60GB before I deleted a bunch of stale stretch ISO images). Wiki bandwidth is actually around 140MB/month based on single-day usage on Feb 3.

We could lower total storage by finally pruning old releases. Anybody downloading for Breezy Badger anymore? I don't know how we can effectively lower BW, though.
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OVH seems to lack teams. I can set a single administrator, single billing, and single tech during instance creation process
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It's not clear if disk space can be manipulated post instance creation; choices were very granular at +50GB for $7/month, +100, +200
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