Before AWS or other similar service, you'd have to use shared hosting with CGI scripts. Here is an ad from 1998 [0]: it says "200 MB storage, 6 GB transfer, CGI

Before AWS or other similar service, you'd have to use shared hosting with CGI scripts. Here is an ad from 1998 [0]: it says "200 MB storage, 6 GB transfer, CGI access and Own Directory, $13.95/month". The CGIs was not speed daemons, but you could easily sustain 0.5 request/second (~43,000/day). So this is still way way cheaper than DApps. [0] https://books.google.com/books?id=TodvBDXmM_oC&lpg=PA350&ots=OZq62Loddb&dq=1990%20hosting%20prices%20cgi&pg=PA350#v=onepage&q&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=TodvBDXmM_oC&lpg=PA350&ots...