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by Karishma1234fff 1629 days ago
I know, but it is impressive that they are doing it for $400.
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richardwhiuk 1629 days ago
It's impressive it takes that much money to do almost no traffic.

A raspberry PI could handle the compute.

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andyp-kw 1629 days ago
Only if the traffic is evenly distributed during the day. Which it's almost certainly not.
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netr0ute 1629 days ago
You can get a $15 2.5 gigabit ethernet adapter for that Raspberry and now you're set for peak loads.
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richardwhiuk 1629 days ago
The traffic graphs in their blog look pretty stable. Maybe 1.5x, but not hugely uneven.
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jabej 1629 days ago
No it’s not. 2 qps is pitiful. If anything $400 is crazy expensive. I guess most of it goes to traffic/storage costs, otherwise they are being ripped off.
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twblalock 1629 days ago
According to the blog post half the money goes to their CDN (Cloudflare) which is a good decision. And about $100 for the database hosting.

I don't think they are overpaying for what they are getting. $400 is not a lot for a proper site that serves a lot of bytes. I just don't think it's that impressive either -- it's just yet another website serving static assets through a CDN, with low QPS too, so I don't see why it's noteworthy.

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