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My sites get 4 billion requests a year but I only pay $244/mo to host them on my own VPS

18 April, 2026 · 889,146 views · 4,962 likes · 249 reposts

I get 4,150,000,000 (4 billion) requests and 300,000,000 (300 million) visitors per year

That'd cost me $338,913 if I wasn't on a VPS like @brian_lovin below

Instead I pay $2,932/year or 115x less because I host my sites on my own VPS

My VPS servers are way too big and usually only use 10% of their resources so I could even go with $300/year probably if I optimized more (but I don't care)

Especially with AI these days it's easier than ever to host your sites yourself, and way cheaper! 100-1000x cheaper!

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