Introducing Snapbyte – A Flexible Edge Caching and File Delivery System

🚀 Introducing Snapbyte

We’re excited to announce the launch of Snapbyte, a new caching and content delivery platform designed for developers and businesses that need reliable, scalable, and cost-efficient file distribution.

Snapbyte acts as a caching proxy between your origin server and end-users, storing and serving content from a global network of edge locations. This approach reduces origin load, shortens latency, and optimizes bandwidth usage.

Snapbyte helps developers and businesses reduce bandwidth, accelerate delivery, and serve large files globally — with minimal setup.

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✨ Key Features

• 🌍 Global Edge Caching Files are cached at edge nodes worldwide, so repeated requests are served closer to the user, reducing round-trip time and improving performance.

• ⚙️ On-Demand Processing Snapbyte can automatically optimize files during delivery — including compression, format conversion (e.g., WebP, AVIF), and resizing for responsive delivery.

• 💰 Usage-Based Pricing Billing is based solely on bandwidth usage. Storage is free for most plans, except for Enterprise where permanent storage is available at $7/TB/month.

• 🔌 REST API Access Full API control for:

  • Preloading files into cache
  • Purging cached content
  • Fetching usage statistics
  • Managing signed URLs for secure delivery

• 💪 Proven Performance The system has been serving large-scale workloads (over 1.5 PB of bandwidth monthly) for more than two years in production under its earlier version.

🚀 Snapbyte Speed Test

Below are the real-world speed test results from different locations when downloading a 100 MB file (1 connection) & 1 GB (16 connections) through Snapbyte. These results highlight Snapbyte's global edge caching performance — carefully optimized to strike the perfect balance between cost-efficiency and download speed.

🌍 Regional Download Performance for 100 MB file, 1 Connection.

Region	Speed	Download Time
US	205 MB/s	0.5 seconds
Canada	90 MB/s	1.1 seconds
EU	33.6 MB/s	3.0 seconds
Taiwan	25.4 MB/s	4.9 seconds
Vietnam	22 MB/s	5.6 seconds
Singapore	22 MB/s	5.8 seconds
India	14.7 MB/s	8.4 seconds

Click to see speed test screenshots (100 MB)

1. US

2. Canada

3. EU

4. Taiwan

5. Delhi

6. Singapore

7. Vietnam

🌍 Regional Download Performance for 1 GB file, 16 Connections.

Region	Speed	Download Time
US	536 MB/s	2 seconds
Canada	475 MB/s	2.2 seconds
EU	163 MB/s	6.1 seconds
Taiwan	205 MB/s	5 seconds
Singapore	134 MB/s	7.6 seconds

Click to see speed test screenshots (1 GB)

1. US

2. EU

3. Canada

4. Taiwan

5. Singapore

More speed tests coming soon...

🔧 How Snapbyte Works

[ User / Client ]
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[ Snapbyte URL Proxy ]
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[ Snapbyte Edge Cache ]
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[ Origin Server or Cloud Storage ]

1. Your application generates a public or signed origin URL.
2. End-users access content via the Snapbyte proxy URL.
3. When a request arrives:
   • If the file exists in edge cache, it’s served immediately.
   • If not, Snapbyte fetches it from the origin, serves it, and stores it for future requests.
4. API endpoints allow cache management and usage monitoring.

📈 Our Experience

Snapbyte has been operating for over 2 years (Under filesos.io), quietly powering a handful of high-demand clients. We've consistently delivered more than 1.5 PB of bandwidth per month, helping our customers scale without compromise.

This hands-on experience with real-world traffic and performance challenges has shaped Snapbyte into a robust, efficient, and production-ready caching platform — built to handle demanding use cases with ease.

💸 Plans Overview

Plan	Cache Duration	Storage Fees	Use Case
Trial	7 days	Free	Evaluation and testing
Pro	30 days (auto-extend on access)	Free	Popular, frequently accessed files
Enterprise	Permanent	$7/TB/month	Long-term, critical content

While Enterprise allows permanent storage, Snapbyte is primarily designed as a caching system, not a long-term storage replacement.

🤔 Why Use Snapbyte?

• Reduce load on your origin servers
• Serve files faster with global edge nodes
• Control content access with signed URLs
• Pay only for the bandwidth you actually use
• Integrate quickly via a simple REST API

🎯 Next Steps

✅ Read the full documentation: docs.snapbyte.io
✅ Sign up for a Trial plan to test caching behavior
✅ Integrate with your application using the REST API

Snapbyte is now live and ready for production workloads. We welcome feedback from early adopters to guide future improvements.