[acejam]

450 million pageviews on Vercel = $46,000

450 million pageviews on a single 16c/32t OVH box with nginx and a 3 Gbps connection = $245

[danpalmer]

450m page views in 1 month is only 173 requests per second. You can do that on a much cheaper box.

[lucideer]

You're assuming an extremely consistent traffic rate, with zero spikes....

[danpalmer]

Sure, but my point is that 450m requests is just not a lot. Humans are bad at big numbers, and this number sounds like a scary amount of traffic, my point is that it is a very boring amount of traffic even on modest hardware.

I personally wouldn't stick it on a single VPS because we can do way better than that in terms of reliability, but the point stands that you don't need very much in terms of resources to serve this.

[acejam]

Sure, you are only proving my point even further. I just happen to have a personal policy of "no boxes in prod under 16 cores". :)

[swyx]

why?

[kstrauser]

Having someone on-call 24/7 to keep that $245 box running: $400K.

[kriz9]

To run a $245 box, you'd need an entire team with Kubernetes experience — at least one Scrum Master included. Under $2M, I’d say it’s impossible.

[tracker1]

Yeah... lol, because cloud setups never fall over. Ever.