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Re:Costs of running a Python webapp for 55k monthly users by senko on Friday September 04, 2020 @03:11AM (#24372503)
If you support 4 million monthly visitors on a media site, and have multiple EC2 instances running, I'd love to see a cost breakdown structure, because in my (obviously incomplete and possibly naive) calculations, the bandwidth alone would cost more than $200/mo.
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Re:Costs of running a Python webapp for 55k monthly users by maxk42 on Friday September 04, 2020 @03:18AM (#24372540)
CloudFlare covers the media bandwidth costs for a mere $20 / month. The uploading and media conversion is the difficult and costly (in terms of CPU) portion.
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Re:Costs of running a Python webapp for 55k monthly users by chmod775 on Friday September 04, 2020 @11:22AM (#24375727)
>CloudFlare covers the media bandwidth costs for a mere $20 / month.

Your media files must be extremely small.

I'm guessing they're less than 20MB on average, because a) CF hasn't shown you the door yet b) they don't even cache anything bigger than half a gigabyte.

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Re:Costs of running a Python webapp for 55k monthly users by maxk42 on Friday September 04, 2020 @03:18AM (#24372545)
Also to be clear I'm talking about image uploads, not video. Still more complicated than this app.
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