Servers are incredibly powerful today. You don’t need much ’bare metal’ to serve a lot of html. One big box can get you quite far. When it’s not enough: put th

Servers are incredibly powerful today. You don’t need much ’bare metal’ to serve a lot of html. One big box can get you quite far. When it’s not enough: put the DB on another big box. Not enough. Put a caching/proxy server first. You can use Cloudflare or others to offload even more static/caching stuff outside. Still way simpler than to understand why AWS billed you something.