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A GB of outbound transfer on AWS costs about 0.09$.

If the page is 55KB, that means that a single GB is about 18K page loads, but let's make that 15K page loads due to various overhead.

To spend 2000$, you'd need to send about 22TB, which are about 330M page loads.

> To spend 2000$, you'd need to send about 22TB, which are about 330M page loads.

That equates to 330M/365d = ~900k loads per day.

> it's now grown to about 6 million hits per day, and that's just the traffic that makes it through to the landing page [0]

So he's paying a discount, even.

But that’s not accounting for gzip.

This. Firefox's dev tools says 3.38KB transferred (including redirect and favicon). Taking that into account, it's closer to 5 billion page loads.

Well if he’s getting 6 million a day that’s a little over 2 billion hits a year. Maybe he’s overprovisioned an AWS instance or something.

I think he's including the transfers from twitter in the 55kb (which is over 50k of it), which wouldn't cost him anything personally

Looks more like 2.7KB and then it loads some resources from Twitter to make up the rest of the size.

When used "properly" it should take even less bandwidth.