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I host several semi-popular blogs, plus a few other sites on a server in the cloud (with The Planet). I get a few million hits a year, and pay $135 a month to keep it up.

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I don't think it's fair to say it costs you more than $1500 to host one blog when in fact it's a series of sites. It gives people the wrong impression of how much the database costs relative to hosting.

(As an aside, I run a site that gets over two million hits A DAY, I pay nothing for my database, and about $100/mo for hosting.)

> I don't think it's fair to say it costs you more than $1500 to host one blog when in fact it's a series of sites.

I agree. That was poor wording on my part.

> and about $100/mo for hosting

Who do you host with?

I have a dedicated server I bought myself years ago and host it at a coloc in downtown Toronto.

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