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How Much Does Web Application Hosting Cost (2025)

26. 05. 2023 Updated: 28. 03. 2026 1 min read intermediate
This article was published in 2023. Some information may be outdated.

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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