I'd pay $10 to $20+ / month for high volume, high bandwidth, cheap image hosting outsourcing with a great API. To be used for offloading image hosting for web services. Aka industrial scale image hosting as a service.
The current solutions are comically expensive compared to doing it yourself. I'd like to see a Digital Ocean-like solution cost wise.
Take for example Cloudinary, which basically offers this type of service. Their $49 / month package offers 15gb of storage and 50gb of transfer. It's so expensive as to be silly if you want scale. By contrast the $40 Digital Ocean package offers 60gb of storage and 4tb of transfer. Cloudinary's $149 (!) package offers 50gb of storage, and 200gb of transfer.
Why not leverage AWS or similar? Their bandwidth costs are obscene, at least 20 times higher than what you can get with a cheap dedicated server.
Someone should be able to do this service for $10 / month, with a minimum of 20gb of storage, and maybe 500gb of transfer. And scale packages up from there.
The current solutions are comically expensive compared to doing it yourself. I'd like to see a Digital Ocean-like solution cost wise.
Take for example Cloudinary, which basically offers this type of service. Their $49 / month package offers 15gb of storage and 50gb of transfer. It's so expensive as to be silly if you want scale. By contrast the $40 Digital Ocean package offers 60gb of storage and 4tb of transfer. Cloudinary's $149 (!) package offers 50gb of storage, and 200gb of transfer.
Why not leverage AWS or similar? Their bandwidth costs are obscene, at least 20 times higher than what you can get with a cheap dedicated server.
Someone should be able to do this service for $10 / month, with a minimum of 20gb of storage, and maybe 500gb of transfer. And scale packages up from there.