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Each page load for this article is 485 KB data, but some of the other pages are more like 1.5 MB

This blog has seen 14,000 views today, but some of the other pages are ~38-40k views

So if you assume ~990KB average page size, 30k views, and he were to post once a day, then that is $78/mo in bandwidth costs assuming 9c/GB. Maybe people tend to click around to the homepage / old articles, or refresh the page a few times?

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What kind of traffic cost is that? I just checked and I pay 1.19 EUR/TB after the first 20TB. The rate you mention is almost two orders of magnitude higher.

10GB/$ is the approximate price for bandwidth on EC2/GCE/Azure. Bandwidth is probably the most expensive item on those cloud services compared to other places.

I see. I knew bandwidth there was more expensive, but I couldn't have fathomed how much more expensive. I am surprised that one would be willing to put up with that for software as simple as a blog, but obviously a lot of people are.

For under 1TB in monthly bandwith many providers just straight up give it for free. And that bandwidth cost is crazy high regardless.

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