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Bazzite just delivered over a petabyte of ISOs in a single month (www.xda-developers.com)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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Bazzite is seeing an insane amount of growth right now

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[–] 85 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Traffic cost must be insane. Hope they have good hosting and won't be paying through the nose and go broke.

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  • [–] 70 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 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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  • [–] 15 points 7 months ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 39 points 7 months ago (2 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 7 months ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 30 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I'm surprised they don't have torrent downloads for it. That would save on bandwidth costs and it's more reliable since torrent clients verify the checksum and automatically redownload any corrupted blocks.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    This whole thread had me wondering how much I'm costing them so I could at least pay my share. A quick search got me this page to donate. There's some information about how they are using that money, but it doesn't seem like they've spent much, and it makes me feel like they've got funding from somewhere else that covers their hosting costs.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago* (1 child)

    Founder here, we have a sponsorship deal with Cloudflare that thankfully covers the vast majority of this. Our hosting costs right now for everything, including the GitHub runners, are $65, with the domain being another $100/yr.

    The intention with the donations is to pay for those costs, travel for Linux conventions, and for us to have a fund for additional higher cost items like eventually doing proper secure boot support. At no point will myself or others be collecting a paycheck out of those funds, and I've been paying our bills for the last 3 years or so. I'm privileged to be able to do this as a hobby and not as a job.

    Thank you for thinking about us! I appreciate the sentiment

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