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		kingkool68 on Aug 12, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Lorem Picsum, death by a million pixel-gigabits 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

haasted on Aug 12, 2019 [–]

What kind of traffic does your service attract?

famfamfam on Aug 12, 2019 | | [–]

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.

davinic on Aug 12, 2019 | | | [–]

I love placekitten. Thank you for this service!

_eht on Aug 12, 2019 | | [–]

If I had to guess by his infrastructure, none.

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