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    You digitized it to be seen. Then access became the expensive part.

    On metered storage, every view of a high-resolution image is an egress charge. The more your collection is used, the more it costs — so open access starts to feel like a budget liability.

    Popularity is a penalty

    Every view adds to your invoice.

    IIIF deep-zoom delivers 50–200 tiles per image. A single popular exhibition or a class assignment can move terabytes in a month. On per-GB egress, the most-loved part of the collection generates the biggest invoice.

    The unpredictable invoice

    You cannot budget a number you cannot predict.

    Egress depends on traffic you do not control — a viral object, a linked syllabus, a scraper. A storage line that should be flat becomes a variable you reconcile every month and cannot forecast for the year.

    Access controls as cost control

    Rationing access to manage a bill.

    Teams throttle resolution, gate downloads, or cache aggressively — not to support preservation, but to keep egress down. The mission is open access; the pricing model quietly works against it.

    10 TB stored. 5 TB delivered a month.

    Same collection, same monthly IIIF and download traffic, three providers. Storage, the egress charged to serve it, and the all-in monthly cost.

    AWS S3 Standard
    Storage 10 TB/mo
    $236
    Egress 5 TB/mo
    $461
    All-in / mo
    $697
    Wasabi
    Storage 10 TB/mo
    $70
    Egress 5 TB/mo
    $0
    All-in / mo
    $70
    Fil OneYou
    Storage 10 TB/mo
    $50
    Egress 5 TB/mo
    $0
    All-in / mo
    $50

    Scenario: 10 TB stored with 5 TB/month delivered to viewers (IIIF tiles, derivatives, downloads). AWS S3 Standard: ≈$236/mo storage ($0.023/GB) + 5 TB egress (5,120 GB × $0.09/GB) ≈ $461/mo ≈ $697/mo all-in. Wasabi: $6.99/TB = $70/mo, egress-free within fair-use limits; traffic-heavy collections may incur charges. Fil One: $4.99/TB = $50/mo, $0 egress. AWS and Wasabi rates from public US price cards, Q2 2026; figures indicative and rounded.

    Open access far and wide. The bill does not move.

    $0 egress, IIIF compatibility, and immutable masters — access without a per-view tax.

    $0 egress, always

    Every IIIF tile request, every full-resolution download, every researcher who opens the collection reads at zero egress cost. Access volume never changes the bill.

    Flat $4.99/TB

    One rate for storage, nothing for delivery. The bill is your stored TBs times $4.99 — predictable enough to put in a budget line that holds for years.

    IIIF server compatible

    Serve directly from the standard S3 API that IIIF image servers like Cantaloupe and IIPImage already read. Point the tile source at Fil One — no re-architecture.

    Object Lock for preservation

    Configure retention from 1 day to 100 years at the bucket level, so master files behind every derivative and tile can't be altered or deleted early.

    Open access, flat bill.

    Start for free with 1 TB. Point your IIIF server at Fil One and serve the collection — at zero egress cost.

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