I’m looking at starting a service that involves hosting a lot of LLM models, which are often going to be 16GB+ (compressed). I did a bit of searching for cloud storage providers with cheap egress, and the cheapest I could find is $0.01 per GB, which would still be $0.16+ per download.

How do sites like Huggingface or CivitAI do it? Lots of VC funding?

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    So I got curious and wondered how HuggingFace hosts their files. It’s AWS CloudFront:

    $ curl -LI https://huggingface.co/facebook/musicgen-large/resolve/main/state_dict.bin
    
    HTTP/2 302 
    content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
    content-length: 1198
    location: https://cdn-lfs.huggingface.co/repos/81/...
    date: Fri, 23 Jun 2023 07:09:39 GMT
    x-powered-by: huggingface-moon
    x-request-id: Root=1-64954533-1eb79eed4ea500203f6435cb
    access-control-allow-origin: https://huggingface.co
    vary: Origin, Accept
    access-control-expose-headers: X-Repo-Commit,X-Request-Id,X-Error-Code,X-Error-Message,ETag,Link,Accept-Ranges,Content-Range
    x-repo-commit: c19300a6b2b62d29b345ae9eb7b163278e65238a
    accept-ranges: bytes
    x-linked-size: 6514108999
    x-linked-etag: "1f0cf17b5e65c5dd8ba71767371c377f174e4ce1db44bc4d6657825769f26ffd"
    x-cache: Miss from cloudfront
    via: 1.1 65c7d0c3355767ac8658c2122c8280b6.cloudfront.net (CloudFront)
    x-amz-cf-pop: SYD1-C1
    x-amz-cf-id: XAU8X4yneUeudylCi_9MeAYZmISCr8OHiBcgjAGcBQT-edrBF6wGCA==
    
    HTTP/2 200 
    content-type: application/octet-stream
    content-length: 6514108999
    date: Fri, 23 Jun 2023 07:06:20 GMT
    last-modified: Thu, 08 Jun 2023 19:05:02 GMT
    etag: "44ef1b51c0cc2200e29fed5cddbf8e27-408"
    x-amz-storage-class: INTELLIGENT_TIERING
    x-amz-server-side-encryption: AES256
    x-amz-version-id: upVN9_QvGmQZMDWfVECqbytHgWjHTz4t
    content-disposition: attachment; filename*=UTF-8''state_dict.bin; filename="state_dict.bin";
    accept-ranges: bytes
    server: AmazonS3
    x-cache: Hit from cloudfront
    via: 1.1 dff3fc94ddb54b32b708edf2668b23d2.cloudfront.net (CloudFront)
    x-amz-cf-pop: SIN52-P1
    x-amz-cf-id: JWTqKUDp8bVPD7Tt4DBySj8zbgT8G60sCA5BMC1cYF4vK9nx45f1Iw==
    age: 200
    vary: Origin