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Which hoster provides bandwidth for 50 bucks / terabyte?

Prgmr can get you to a Tb for something like 10/mo.

I used to hit ~1TB/month fairly regularly on my Dreamhost shared hosting, for which I pay $120 a year.

https://www.digitalocean.com/help/policy/

0.02$/GB which comes out to 20$ per TB and the first TB is included in the price.

100MB video with 5 million views is 500TB. If 500TB costs $5000, it's $10/TB, not $50/TB.

As long as you stay away from well-known IaaS platforms, there are plenty of places where you can get bandwidth for less than $10/TB. Lowest I've seen is $1/TB. Having actually used a few hundred TB with them, it's a bit slower but not that bad.

I think you are missing part of the cost. It's not just the bandwidth that would need to scale to support that much traffic.

A low-end dedicated server can cost you as little as $30-40/month and you'll get 5-10TB of bandwidth