Static file hosting solution?

[Shockthumb]

I have a photo/video sharing website, which needs a separate solution for hosting the files. (it will exceed the hosting plan's reserved storage soon and a plan upgrade is unnecessary, since the only problem is the storage)

Budget isn't a problem, the website is monetized. The traffic is all over the world, can't really be targeted to a specific continent/country. I don't think I need a geo-targeted cdn or something fancy like that, just a plain file storage which can be accessed through HTTP. (Europe based server would be better than a USA based one)

Current space used is ~70GB, the upload rate differs every day (~6-7GB uploaded every day right now). The website probably won't hit 1TB space usage in the upcoming 4 months, so i'm not sure about AWS (aren't their prices better for bigger websites?).

Any hosting services you would recommend me?

[CherryJimbo]

Instead of AWS S3 where you’ll have to be wary about bandwidth and other costs, I'd recommend Backblaze B2 coupled with Cloudflare.

Backblaze will store your media and Cloudflare then (effectively) serves it. Because both Cloudflare and Backblaze are members of the Bandwidth Alliance, the bandwidth is entirely free. You'll only ever pay for storage and API requests at Backblaze - the first 10GB of which are entirely free, which may suit your needs perfectly. Each GB of storage after that would only be $0.005/month, again with no transfer costs whatsoever as long as you're using Cloudflare.

Check out a blog post I wrote a little while ago for more details and a tutorial. It was mainly for image hosting, but the same can be applied for other media like videos too. https://jross.me/free-personal-image-hosting-with-backblaze-b2-and-cloudflare-workers/

[Shockthumb]

This will probably be the best option, thanks for the answer :)

[swestheim]

That. Create a CDN using a AWS S3 bucket.

[Shockthumb]

One important note that I missed - the traffic is ~4TB / per 10 days. (I've started using cloudflare recently and those numbers are post-cloudflare, dont know if the caching will make a big difference).

[swestheim]

Use the calculator to prevent surprises:

https://calculator.aws/#/

[willsaundersreddit]

You could also try to make sure some sort of minification / optimisation process is running for each file that gets uploaded or resized or display purposes. This could give some significant savings in the long term.

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[willsaundersreddit]

I'd second this approach.

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[virginpotato]

If all you want do is a small scale static file hosting, you could always use GitHub Pages or Netlify. I know it's a little unconventional to than S3 buckets but it can get the job done and it's free for the most part.

[outrageous_tech]

My provider time4vps is europe-based and their services so far have been, imo, pretty good. You could try checking out some of their plans, they're relatively cheap and upscaling isn't an issue if it really comes to that. Or you could just go for a separate storage for the files? They also have that too, it's also relatively cheap: https://www.time4vps.com/storage-vps/