It just isn't. We are talking websites here. You can serve billions of requests from dirt cheap vps. Heck, I just saw a hetzner website, on a hosting plan for 2

It just isn't. We are talking websites here. You can serve billions of requests from dirt cheap vps. Heck, I just saw a hetzner website, on a hosting plan for 20 € pumping out almost a terabyte of traffic per month. The database is included in the hosting plan.