I hear people talking a lot about egress. What exactly is it?
Egress is “the amount of outbound data that developers can transmit from their Repls to users and external services”
Do you have any examples for what are external services?
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.
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?
It’d actually use less (unless idk.com
is a repl on your account), because you only pay for what your own repl sends.