I'd be most interested to hear about situations one step up from there, where Hetzner's per-TB-per-month pricing doesn't work out favorably and you want to serve content reasonably quickly anywhere in the world.
It seems like you could build out a CDN on OVH using 1-5Gbps unmetered+guaranteed bandwidth and place servers in the US, Europe, and a few PoPs in Asia for relatively cheap, then use GeoDNS for balancing traffic. But it seems like OVH's pricing offerings have been shifting over the last year to remove the "guaranteed bandwidth" in favor of "unmetered bandwidth" (potentially throttled 50%) on more machine types.
It would still require monitoring and managing bandwidth saturation per host, and it's unclear how much extra hassle OVH adds. But in theory it seems easier than setting up and managing colos in many countries?
It seems like you could build out a CDN on OVH using 1-5Gbps unmetered+guaranteed bandwidth and place servers in the US, Europe, and a few PoPs in Asia for relatively cheap, then use GeoDNS for balancing traffic. But it seems like OVH's pricing offerings have been shifting over the last year to remove the "guaranteed bandwidth" in favor of "unmetered bandwidth" (potentially throttled 50%) on more machine types.
It would still require monitoring and managing bandwidth saturation per host, and it's unclear how much extra hassle OVH adds. But in theory it seems easier than setting up and managing colos in many countries?