> We’re also going to start charging for network egress at $0.10 / GB. The financial impact on most users will be negligible, but this will let us disincentivize certain kinds of abuse (torrent aggregators sapping bandwidth, which can result in latency spikes).
Railway is far from alone in doing this, but I really find it frustrating how much most hosts overcharge for bandwidth. $100/TB of egress basically kills any P2P video chat apps (even if they rely on WebRTC and only need TURN), screen-sharing, and many other classes of interesting services one could build. It's considerably more expensive than what I paid serving audio files from a WordPress site over a decade ago, despite bandwidth being much cheaper in 2023 and media files of all sorts being larger.
Railway is far from alone in doing this, but I really find it frustrating how much most hosts overcharge for bandwidth. $100/TB of egress basically kills any P2P video chat apps (even if they rely on WebRTC and only need TURN), screen-sharing, and many other classes of interesting services one could build. It's considerably more expensive than what I paid serving audio files from a WordPress site over a decade ago, despite bandwidth being much cheaper in 2023 and media files of all sorts being larger.