> A server from Hetzner costs the equivalent of 30 minutes of my time a month.
My toy code, which takes ~6ms (at p75) to exec, runs in 200+ locations, serves requests from 150 different countries (with users reporting end-to-end latencies in low 50ms). This costs well below $50/mo on Cloudflare, and $0 in devops. Make what you will of that.
It has seen everything between 10rps to 10000rps, and never once complained. Latencies remain steady, requests remain serviceable, abuse (DDoS/bots) still gets caught, throughput just seems to scale elastically even if not boundlessly.
My toy code, which takes ~6ms (at p75) to exec, runs in 200+ locations, serves requests from 150 different countries (with users reporting end-to-end latencies in low 50ms). This costs well below $50/mo on Cloudflare, and $0 in devops. Make what you will of that.