Bandwidth is cheap at places that don't call themselves "cloud". You can even get unmetered. 10TB/month is usually enough, even with bots. If you're serving large files, put a simple bot test on the page before the files.

> 10TB/month is usually enough, even with bots.

My single static webpage with no updates in 3 years is doing that, which is (one of the reasons) how I end up where that site (and many others in business and personally) is.

You're chasing a dream for a world that doesn't exist anymore.