Ask HN: Best/clever ways to run a media-heavy website on a budget?

I've been taking a break from working to relax and visit some friends in a few countries. So I don't have a lot of money, but with my newfound free time, I've been inspired to take a shot at a few ideas I've always wanted to build.

One idea is particularly media heavy. I have 5+ TB of media that I'd like to build something around.

Services like S3 are pretty expensive, especially bandwidth. Backblaze has been trying to market their storage solution (https://ift.tt/1Ftwt9J) against S3.

But I can get even cheaper by using low quality hardware and bandwidth like Kimsufi's 2TB machines for $10/mo (https://ift.tt/1U2dybh).

Does anyone have another ideas for stretching a dollar?

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