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?
Probably. They might have gotten additional discounts off of the advertized price by talking with sales and committing to the service for a year or other ways.