Or they are just paying for their bandwidth
The download links are subdomain linked with cloudflare that's why I can't tell by nameserver where are they hosting
Simple, use a cdn provider like bunny. That should not hurt your host.
If I understand correctly cloudflare cdn can cache the download file and you can offload your server, same with bunny cdn as gogol suggested.
A CDN service like Bunny will only cache your files across several edge PoPs (points of Presence aka edge servers). These edge servers will still need to download the files from the host frequently as they are not persisted.
hmm okay whatever they are called.
Well, thats not entirely true, at Bunny you can use Perma-Cache with replication. Then the files would be loaded from the Perma-Cache edge storage nodes, there are 8 of them now spread around the world, more will come. Read up on Perma-Cache, it will greatly off-load your origin server.
There's no such thing as unlimited bandwidth
Do not host the download assets on your WordPress sites. Either use some cloud storage like MEGA or use object storage like Amazon S3 of alternatives. You will be charged for the bandwidth there ofc, but it will be far cheaper than you pay your web host to host your wp sites.
With perma-cache you pay for the storage too. Perma-cache integrates with their storage service which you pay extra for.
Of course you pay for the edge storage nodes per GB, well worth the peanuts it costs, and way better prices then for example a S3 storage node, see the comparison on performance here, bottom of the page. If you wan´t quality, it does not have to cost that much.
Yea I get you. I meant the same. I just thought your earlier post was trying to say that they can use a CDN while hosting the files on their wp site and not using file storage services.hmm okay whatever they are called.
I was trying to mean file storage services like s3 buckets. I have not personally used bunny much so I don’t know what exactly it is called. I did not recommend s3 because of a few reasons. For one, aws can be complicated to setup because of its boring interface. Then comes the cost, which can burn op’s budget.
With that, it would be wonderful if the service could have multiple server locations. That would mean faster download time.
The point is, don’t use your hosting to store and serve large file. It can seriously fck things up if a competitor notices this, or you have decent amount of traffic.
That's true. Aws s3 itself is expensive af for object storage. Quite ironic that there are cheaper object storage services Like s3 that are even s3-compatible and are lot cheaper than s3 itself.
Yes, there's no unlimited bandwidth
