Web Hosting Costs
Comments focus on the low costs of hosting personal websites, static sites, and small projects, with users recommending cheap VPS, shared hosting, or self-hosting options like $5/month Digital Ocean droplets while criticizing higher platform expenses.
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it probably cost less than $1/month to host the average user... this is just craziness
The hosted platform is specifically for small projects and personal homepages, not for big businesses. The platform they run probably have monthly expenses below 50 USD/month, I don't think that's their biggest expense, if you compare to rent and groceries...
Why shouldn't I host it myself for €5/month?
you could probably run it on a $5 dreamhost account and get away with it.
"because we're not spending n*10e06 per month on hosting."
How much did this save you in energy and hosting fees?
Digital Ocean is $5 per month. You could probably run hundreads of static sites off a single instance depending on traffic and these days many websites are just business cards really.
thanks, that's helpful advice. where are you hosting it? what are the hosting costs?
This is neat but hosting costs could be a burden.
Hosting something like this would be very cheap. A $40 a month VPS could handle it for a while and if it outgrows that then it will be worth something.