| Bandwidth is $0.090 per GB. (You mixed it up with the storage price that is $0.023/GB). Let's say the site is 1MB to deliver. That's nothing fancy, lots of text, css, logos, headers. For 100k viewers, that's about 100GB of traffic, or $9 dollars. How do you bankrupt yourself with your blog from there: By multiplying it. 1) You've got more than this single article => triple it. 2) You've got medias (picture/gif/video) that take 3MB => quadruple it. 3) My traffic stats don't account for bots/crawler => You're at the mercy of them or any dude who "ab -n 1000000 yoursite.com/logo.png" A bill of hundreds of dollars for a personal blog might not scare a HN silicon valley engineer making $15k a month but that's much more than enough for the rest of the world. Even in western Europe, don't expect the disposable income to be much more than $100 a month. |
Correct, my fault there. I was somehow looking at the wrong chart.
"Let's say the site is 1MB to deliver"
I think your estimate of the size of a typical blog post is considerably at variance with the norm. 2-3K would be more like it. Maybe 100K with logo.