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450 million pageviews on Vercel = $46,000 450 million pageviews on a single 16c/32t OVH box with nginx and a 3 Gbps connection = $245
by acejam 8mo ago
450 million pageviews on Vercel = $46,000
450 million pageviews on a single 16c/32t OVH box with nginx and a 3 Gbps connection = $245
- danpalmer 8mo ago450m page views in 1 month is only 173 requests per second. You can do that on a much cheaper box.
- acejam 8mo agoSure, you are only proving my point even further. I just happen to have a personal policy of "no boxes in prod under 16 cores". :)
- swyx 8mo agowhy?
- lucideer 8mo agoYou're assuming an extremely consistent traffic rate, with zero spikes....
- danpalmer 8mo agoSure, but my point is that 450m requests is just not a lot. Humans are bad at big numbers, and this number sounds like a scary amount of traffic, my point is that it is a very boring amount of traffic even on modest hardware. I personally wouldn't stick it on a single VPS because we can do way better than that in terms of reliability, but the point stands that you don't need very much in terms of resources to serve this.
- kstrauser 8mo agoHaving someone on-call 24/7 to keep that $245 box running: $400K.