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> Let's say it is $2k/mo. I also run a small business.

Your server bill should be $100/mo - $200/mo max for a "small" business. I've ran a multi-tenant SaaS platform on a $200/mo DigitalOcean budget (server for Postgres, server for Redis, server for node.js apps) that brought in $30k/mo. If you're spending that much a month on cloud hosting, consider yourself got by the marketing of "serverless".



In this case, they receive five billion requests a day, from a client base of over a billion. That's not really a small business any more.

I don't know what DigitalOcean would charge for servers at that scale.


I think you missed GP's point. They aren't telling us how much their business makes, they are replying to the posts saying "that wasn't worth it" -> "maybe it was worth it because it was probably ~8k" with "even if it was 2k it was worth it".




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