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I run https://dummyimage.com, the first placeholder image service which has been online since 2007. I use a 1GB, 1vCPU instance from DreamCompute costing $6.00 per month. That's it.

To be fair dummyimage.com doesn't do any sort of image reading or resizing. Source doe at https://github.com/kingkool68/dummyimage

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What kind of traffic does your service attract?

If I had to guess by his infrastructure, none.

For reference: I do about 7GB of image traffic/day for placekitten (a similar service) for about the same cost ($6/mo). I do resize images.

I love placekitten. Thank you for this service!

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