> An AWS large server is around $500/year For the use-cases I was involved in (image gallery hosting, 2-3Gbps traffic), costs looked like: AWS: $400/mo for ap

> An AWS large server is around $500/year For the use-cases I was involved in (image gallery hosting, 2-3Gbps traffic), costs looked like: AWS: $400/mo for app servers, $40,000/mo for CDN bandwidth Bare metal: $400/mo for app servers, $400/mo for a couple of caching reverse-proxies, each with an unmetered gigabit connection When you’re dealing with anything more bandwidth-heavy than HTML+JS+CSS, having a handful of bare-metal Varnish instances is _orders of magnitude_ cheaper than the cloud… (We have also looked at dedicated CDN providers like cloudflare, but we’re in that sweet spot where we’re too large for the publicly advertised plans, and the “call us for a custom contract” plans want a minimum spend around $3,000/mo :/ )