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See the second answer for a statement from cf https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/88659/how-can...

Thank You! The answer was from 2016, and yet this is the first time anyone has posted this every time a similar question was raised on HN over the past few years.

I'm familiar with those terms but still.

There are people with free accounts moving GBs every month through their network and I imagine those free users must account for a very large percentage of their traffic.

I’d imagine at this point they are heavily peered in most markets, driven by said free users, so there isn’t a significant opex hit bandwidth -wise. Space/power opex plus network/compute hardware capex probably dominates their spend.

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