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Karishma1234fff

I know, but it is impressive that they are doing it for $400.

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It's impressive it takes that much money to do almost no traffic.

A raspberry PI could handle the compute.

Only if the traffic is evenly distributed during the day. Which it's almost certainly not.

The traffic graphs in their blog look pretty stable. Maybe 1.5x, but not hugely uneven.

You can get a $15 2.5 gigabit ethernet adapter for that Raspberry and now you're set for peak loads.

No it’s not. 2 qps is pitiful. If anything $400 is crazy expensive. I guess most of it goes to traffic/storage costs, otherwise they are being ripped off.

According to the blog post half the money goes to their CDN (Cloudflare) which is a good decision. And about $100 for the database hosting.

I don't think they are overpaying for what they are getting. $400 is not a lot for a proper site that serves a lot of bytes. I just don't think it's that impressive either -- it's just yet another website serving static assets through a CDN, with low QPS too, so I don't see why it's noteworthy.

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