>I guarantee you they would have recouped the costs
Do you know the costs. Please share
Do you know the costs. Please share
1,560,000 pages x 150 KB/page = 234 GB
234 GB x $0.023 per GB = $5.38
this is just to host all the pages themselves.
Data transfer per month: (Assuming 10 million pageviews)
10,000,000 x 150 KB = 1,500 GB
1,500 GB x $0.09 per GB = $135
GET and all other Requests:
$0.0004 per 1,000 requests
30,000,000 / 1,000 x $0.0004 = $12
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Storage cost: $5.38
Data transfer cost: $135
Requests cost: $12
Total estimated cost per month: $5.38 + $135 + $12 = $152.38
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This is NOT considering images themselves, though you get a general idea of what I am implying.
Enjoy the math. I was happy to share it with you.
Reply to this post once you have set up the Cloudflare account and posted the content on it and I'll send you an email you can give me admin credentials on so I can put billing details in.
If the founder really wanted it back, the correct response would have been asking Amazon in a public forum if they would like to pass on ownership. If done in a gracious and respectful tone, I have no doubt that would have engendered all around good feels. It could have even compelled Amazon to put one half quarter of engineering headcount into wrapping the site up in an AWS account to hand over.
The founder should have said they'd be happy to take on costs and future burden, host it on AWS, and continue to link to Amazon products and storefront. Should have said that they were grateful for Amazon's stewardship and that they'd like to continue carrying the torch. An easy all-around win.
The actual response from the founder was too negative and blame ridden if their intention was to resume operation.