From zero to millions of users — what does it cost?
Free Tier ($0)¶
- Vercel / Netlify — static sites, serverless
- Railway / Render — free tier with limits
- Cloudflare Pages — static + Workers
- Supabase — PostgreSQL free tier
Small Project ($8-20/month)¶
- VPS: Hetzner CX22 ($4/month, 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM)
- DigitalOcean droplet
- Database on the same server
- Let’s Encrypt SSL
Medium Project ($40-200/month)¶
- Managed Kubernetes (DigitalOcean DOKS from $12)
- Managed PostgreSQL (from $15)
- CDN (Cloudflare free)
- Monitoring (Grafana Cloud free tier)
Large Project ($400-2,000/month)¶
- AWS/Azure/GCP managed services
- Multi-AZ deployment
- Managed databases
- Load balancer
- WAF, DDoS protection
Enterprise ($4,000+/month)¶
- Multi-region
- Reserved instances
- Dedicated support
- Compliance (SOC2, ISO)
- 24/7 SRE team
Hidden Costs¶
- Egress traffic
- DNS queries
- SSL certificates (wildcard)
- Monitoring and logging
- Backup storage
Tip¶
Start small (Hetzner VPS). Scale when you need to. Most startups overpay for cloud unnecessarily.
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