What exactly is EGRESS?

I hear people talking a lot about egress. What exactly is it?

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Egress is “the amount of outbound data that developers can transmit from their Repls to users and external services

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Do you have any examples for what are external services?

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External services would be things not Replit or Replit users that data is sent to. I had a Repl that hosted ~25 images on the web and that took lots of egress. I had a Repl that showed my follower count (updated 2000, which I think is every two seconds), and that took lots of egress. I have another Repl that sends large amounts of text to webpages and that uses very little egress. It’s all in how much data and how often it’s accessed.

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Wait, so if I did this

<img src="https://idk.com/image.png">

would that take up more Egress than

<img src="image.png">

because it’s taking images from the web?

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It’d actually use less (unless idk.com is a repl on your account), because you only pay for what your own repl sends.

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