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		nabakin on June 28, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: I ranked news websites by speed Photopea.com was able to keep their hosting costs down to about $50/yr while still serving 7 million people[1]. Their website was hosted statically at a size of 1.8 megabytes. Yours is different of course because you scrape Wikipedia regularly, but there may be a cheaper solution than your current setup out there for you fyi [1] https://old.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/i8j5te/i_made_a_free_...

muzani on June 28, 2022 [–]

If OP had 7 million people, they wouldn't be losing money, even if it were serving ads.

gnicholas on June 29, 2022 | [–]

I don't think GP was talking about profitability, but about the absolute level of the cost.

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