They never claimed that hosting costs would be 100x cheaper, and given what they show with amount of machines in the scaling chart, I doubt it is. It's a JVM a

They never claimed that hosting costs would be 100x cheaper, and given what they show with amount of machines in the scaling chart, I doubt it is. It's a JVM application with all state duplicated N times, so at least on the memory side it's likely going to be a resource hog.