I’m really surprised that you call our bandwidth price “ludicrously high”. I might not have been clear in my previous comment, currently we’re providing 5TB/mo of free transfer and will always maintain a significant free tier for the bandwidth. We intend to maintain a forever free plan.
As far as I know, our bandwidth price is one of the lowest in the cloud/hosting market. We’re charging for bandwidth because our own providers do charge for it. We do not earn any money out of it, we’re simply covering our own hosting costs.
There is two models to charge bandwidth in the hosting/cloud market: with a limited bandwidth (e.g. 1Gb/s) and per GB. Most cloud providers are charging by GB, AWS, Azure and GCP are charging between $0.05 and $0.23, so between 5x and 23x more. DigitalOcean, Vultr and Linode charge $0.01, so the same price. European providers like OVH and Scaleway cap the bandwidth. Do you have any example of providers with a significantly lower price?