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I'm running a (small) image hosting site which has been getting a little bit of traction lately (2,000 to 5,000 visitors a day, spikes up to 10,000). It's hosted on Linode and I've already run out of the bandwidth for this month (300 GB). I've experimented with Amazon S3 but that was costing me $5 a day, Linode currently costs me $30 a month. I get a tiny bit of revenue from ads (Adsense and Black Label Ads) but it's not enough to break even.

What should I do? Obviously I'd like to keep running the site but not if it starts costing me a lot of money.

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What are you hosting that 2-5 thousand visits a day(minus spikes unless there are a lot of them) is going through 300G of bandwidth? That seems excessive, unless you're streaming media, or something. And if you are, that may influence where you should be moving things to. I have a client with much higher traffic than that I'm pretty sure isn't chewing that much bandwidth. – Su' Feb 23 '11 at 10:34
@Su': Black Label Ads is an ad system for porn sites, so ElbertF is running some kind of adult image sharing site. – delete Feb 23 '11 at 11:36
@Su I'm hosting animated GIFs. – ElbertF Feb 23 '11 at 20:21
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You can try hosting static content at hetzner, it allows 4tb of free (included) traffic, 6.5 euros per tb over the free limit. But you would pay more for the storage.

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Very good point and I might just do that, Hetzer is pretty awesome. Although I actually just moved the site from Europe (Gandi.net) to improve latency. – ElbertF Feb 23 '11 at 7:22
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