Are you going to say there is not even a distributed no-SQL cluster behind this? Well, I can understand the UI part, but there are limits...

Local config for static stuff and postgres yes-SQL.

I assume it doesn't scale extremely easily but seems to work good enough for now.

YesSQL. Perfect. I'm going to steal that.

YesSQL scales just fine to enterprises like VCS repo hosting. All you have to do is shard correctly (along the lines where you least need the power of SQL, preferably).

I guess this boils down to the classic: No approach is universally better.

You can write a client-side application and distribute it through some CDN (like Netlify) and have no administration duties or server cost. However, your app will end up not working without JS (and your tech stack could possibly be a mess, depending on your choices). Or you can generate pages on the server which requires you to have, well, a server.

Both approaches have benefits and drawbacks.

Are you calling this high or low, and are you snarking or praising?

We're in way too deep here.

Where did you get that from?

Not sure about that figure but there's https://lists.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/sr.ht-discuss/%3CBVRVZEWYB30Q..... Looks like their monthly expenses were around $1,200 going in to Q2.

And that's for an offering including a CI build farm. Not just a website.

I just took 640+129/3

Anyway, few hundred dollars added or subtracted doesn't really change the point. This is a fairly cheap operation given what it provides.