Bazzite is seeing an insane amount of growth right now

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[–] 65 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (7 children)

Should be manageable and it is probably less than you would imagine. Just checked real quick: the isos load from download.bazzite.gg, which is a Cloudflare IP. So they are either using it as CDN or even more likely use Cloudflares R2 storage for isos - which would mean they pay for storage (~15$/TB) and operations, but not for egress. This is seems ideal for few but huge files.

So for a single iso (~7 GB) they would pay 0,105$ for storage monthly and additionally 0,36$ per million of class B operations (reads/downloads). Of course they host more than one ISO, but for this example it would have been downloaded about ~150000 times to reach the petabyte.

So yeah, the ISO download is probably less of a problem. (Disclaimer: lot of assumptions, check in with a bazzite dev for clarity)

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  • [–] 14 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    Doesn't $0.36 times 150,000 downloads come out to 54 thousand dollars, which is a lot of money?

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  • [–] 37 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    Sorry, my bad. 0,36$ per million class b operations. Of course there will be slightly more operations than downloads (e.g. people/bots sarting downloads and aborting them), but still probably cheap.

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    yeah i mean for every 1 active user we have 1250 requests to download here. lots of bots. i dont know if they count upgrade pulls (each version is essentially a full iso that gets pulled to your computer), but if so that means with each update we'll see even more data draw from all the users upgrading.

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