It would cost you more than what it costs facebook to run facebook. The initial cost barrier to run and scale something at that level would be more for a new co

It would cost you more than what it costs facebook to run facebook. The initial cost barrier to run and scale something at that level would be more for a new company/startup than it costs facebook. Also, any new startup would have to spend a huge amount of money before they even know where to optimize costs. As per this article[0], Facebook has around $3 Billion in datacenter investments.