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If the NixOS team cannot handle this then I question their capabilities. This is cake work.

Handle yes, but is this “cheaper”

As is, Nix would have to spend $108k/year to continue to host from S3. For comparison, OpenStreetMap's entire budget for infra/ops is 169,197/year (FY2023).

Of the cloud storages, AWS S3 is the most expensive for both storage and bandwidth.

A half petabyte at other places such as wasabi would cost 35k a year, including bandwidth.

Open street maps by comparison in 196GB compressed including full history. 20 years of full snapshots would amount to only .2PB, or 20k a month to host on cheaper storage providers.

I don't think using OSM's budget was the best example.

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