| > Which VPS provider are you talking about specifically? Take any major one like OVH. > If this is a static site, 2 million monthly visitors on AWS would cost less than $5. If this was a static site I could run it for free. But it's not. > Four medium EC2 instances. That's not even a close to the specs of the dedicated servers I am using, nor is the site "just" those four servers. Those $500 include everything from domains to backups, to various back- and front-end VPS. >I still can't begin to imagine what your app is doing that it could possibly cost you $20,000/month. I just told you. The egress traffic alone would cost me that much. Look up what 500TB-1000TB of egress traffic would cost me on AWS. Last I checked it was easily north of $20,000 even with their volume discounts. Meanwhile I can buy dedicated servers with 1Gbps dedicated and unmetered bandwidth for 60-70 bucks/month nowadays, and I won't have to worry about paying a dollar more - and certainly not thousands of dollars. And no it's not the kind of traffic you can just run through a CDN. I would if it'd make sense. In fact I already use Cloudflare for those areas where it makes sense - shaves off around 100TB. |