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tapland
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Wow. So it's free if he shut down the site last week?
Crazy how good your solution is. No, bandwidth is far from free.
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He might have had to change hosting providers, and/or stick a new CDN in front, but for tiny (80 KB all told) client-side webapps like this with no database backend it's entirely feasible to host it for free pretty much indefinitely.
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He uses Cloudflare.
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Not all providers bill for network usage, you can also pay a flat fee for a fixed upload speed or a soft cap at a certain limit.
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Crazy how good your solution is. No, bandwidth is far from free.