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Looking for High Speed Bandwidth VPS at affordable costs
Hello Everyone, I want to build an streaming website (No it's not movie streaming),
I want to protect my source S3 Object Storage with Authentication layer on top, meaning, I'll be using VPS for authentication/validation before videos can be accessed, it's a Middleware. So having high speed bandwidth is necessary, 1GBPS? And about bandwidth usage, I am not really sure, realistically it won't be too high for beginning but having good enough bandwidth amount would be great!
What else would I need for such usage? Only thing that matters is bandwidth right? Rest can be anything..or as low as possible since there is not much processing on server, just verify the hashed token and server video from S3 to user.
And having unlimited incoming would be cool, so that if there's any bandwidth limit, it would all be used for outgoing not incoming from S3 to VPS.
Simply put I want to do reverse proxy...ig
So amount I would be willing to pay is around $10 💀
I might be asking too much...but please!!!! My S3 cost is just around $5 monthly... I cannot be paying high amount for Middleware
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You need realistic data , or atleast your current or previous month usage
Or if you havent start public yet , try estimate user use your website and multiply it with amount of storage you got
So atleast we can see how big or small your current site now
Example expect 1000 user , each user watch average 30 video per day , each video around 100MB that 3TB monthly bandwidth but since you are middleware so you need double the bandwidth and become 6TB
Also goodluck with that budget with unlimited bandwidth
Yes, website isn't public yet. Middleware is yet to be made. For starting, I am expecting less than 1000 for starting but I am ready to scale, like buying multiple vps as user base grows.
Each video being approx 200MB, and I am expecting 200users/day, It's possible many won't watch any video or even full if clicked anything. But let's assume all of them watches, I am expecting each user watching 2-4 videos, I would be needing is around 1TB per day (it covers ups & down of traffic)...
But like I said, I am willing to buy more servers or upgrade current ones and setup load balancer (by Load Balancer I mean, My main server will decide which Middleware server to be chosen based on its current load.)
I won't buy multiple initially but as user base grows...
So the reverse proxy is private, not shared. Layer7 permits this type of use:
Layer7 — €3.73 / month
1 Ryzen Cores (shared)
4096 MB RAM
120 GB NVMe
51200 GB/month bandwidth
5.0 Gbps port speed
IPv4 + IPv6
France
or Hizakura — $5.95 / month
2 Intel Cores (shared)
4096 MB RAM
40 GB NVMe
8192 GB/month bandwidth
10.0 Gbps port speed
IPv4 + IPv6
NL location
From the aff pony page there is also SpeedyPage but they forbid hosting video streaming websites. And there is also a Kuroit product card, but is out of stock. And I'm overhauling the whole fucking thing these days so be patient and the out of stock stuff will be creared in an hour!
Take a look at our DIY VPS plan:
https://vpsforvpn.com/clients/index.php?rp=/store/kvm-servers/diy-kvm-server
We have cheap BW add-ons, also for every BW pack you order you'll get in fact double.
For example, the plan for $3/month already has 4TB included. If you pay another $2 you'll get 2x 5TB, which means that for $5/mo you'll get a VPS with 10TB of Bandwidth.
Why not use presigned urls with s3 for authentication? (build-in feature of S3)
Do you have a preferred location ?
Your budget is too high, our community avg price for this kind of service is $7.
Unfortunately, S3 doesn't support IP address restrictions & Domain Restriction...
And different possibilities are nil
Layer7 seems like a great offer (almost too good to be true)...Would be looking into that
Btw, what do you mean by Reverse proxy is private, not shared?
Not really...Any location would work I guess...
It's not like it's for online gaming or something where latency matters...
The more I can save, the more merrier.
OVH VLE-4 is 1 Gbps unmetered for $11/m
Hi there,
Assuming there is nothing illegal, I can do 1cpu, 512 MB RAM, 15 GB SSD, 1 Gbps @ 2 TB traffic in US for 10 EUR/year for you.
DM me if interested.
It's a TOS nuisance, most providers don't allow proxies open to the public on their VPSs.
Doesn't that just concern proxies used in a forward way where the user controls the target? I mean, sure, there's some room for interpretation but that's what i've always thought it would refer to.
TOSs usually state that public proxies are forbidden without adding specific clarifications about the type of proxies, but I think the concern is in avoiding network abuse, like warez download, pirated movies and who knows, which in wholesale quantity might lead to police scrutiny. But may also be an euphemism to prevent excess bandwidth consumption caused by public proxies.
Yeah my line of thinking was basically that it was in the same vein many providers disallow public VPNs as those would basically be anonymization services therefore draw a lot of abuse. Reverse proxies make an interesting case though. I mean it's kinda hard to argue against them being public (when used on the open internet).
Unfortunately, it's not private. And yes, it's not a forward proxy like @totally_not_banned mentioned. It's a reverse proxy, a way to handle incoming requests.
My main idea is to cache all S3 content, serving cached content won't trigger API transactional costs. Having a single point server like a VPS, which is the only entity that accesses S3, means 95% of requests will be served via cache (S3 to VPS), thus preventing any potential API transactions triggered by streaming videos. Object Storage with costs for every request is not suitable for video streaming.
I'm not concerned about the cache between the user and VPS, lol. It's not like I'm providing a first-class streaming service like Netflix or YouTube.
I tested my website with a few people, and watching each video would incur an average of 1K-2K requests, which is insane!
@DennyYT: in my interpretation, your usage is fine and permitted; what is problematic is if end users control the proxy endpoint. Just buy enough bandwidth to avoid AUP's gray areas.
With @Layer7 and their 5 Gbps plans you should be good. I'd avoid their 1 Gbps plans as it was mentioned that high bandwidth usage is not expected on those, although permitted.