[lionkor]

They could probably host this on a $60 Hetzner dedi, with maybe a $5 VPS from some other provider in case the big one goes down, at least to host the website and possibly a status page from two locations.

That can easily handle TiB of traffic (Say 20+ TiB/month), have a few thousand requests a second (depends on what kind of request), and you can easily parallelize a lot of this by running your backend in a few docker containers on this dedi.

That's, say, $70 including the cost for a domain and such, and all it requires in maintenance is regular system updates.

Auction boxes on Hetzner often come with >1TiB of SSD storage, if you're so inclined.

Then again, I'm the kind of guy to play OpenTTD by making a few simple networks and watching the thing generate stable revenue, and then messing around with building something else, so maybe the mentality is just different.

[berkle4455]

Running anything you care about on Hetzner is a needless risk. There's numerous other discount providers who don't abruptly turn off traffic to your box or close your account the moment they see something they don't understand.