Projects (apps/websites) that have their main revenue stream from advertisements, should require quite heavy traffic to earn from ads as per ad view payout is very less. But huge traffic incurs huge bandwidth and there comes the hosting or server costs? How many of you break even? How do people manage the initial server costs when the traffic is low?<p>One interview by Photopea founder I remember: He says that his website is static and all computation is done in the users machine. Only a set of javascript files and html css are loaded once the website is opened. He earned in 100,000s per year, when yearly server costs were negligible because he was hosting a static website. Despite huge traffic, the hosting company didn't charge him much. Why is it so? Is this the case with anybody else?<p>If you have any case study to share, personal or not, you can share it in the comments! Basically I want to learn on what factor costs depend and in what way. I am a noob at this!
The cost of hosting a website or application can vary depending on several factors, including the amount of traffic the website receives, the amount of storage, compute power, type of hosting(shared, dedicated, VPS, etc), bandwidth required, and the level of security and support needed. Therefore, it is not always the case that a high traffic website will necessarily have a higher hosting cost.<p>Additionally, the profitability of a hosting service depends on the specific business model and pricing strategy of the company providing the service. Therefore, it is difficult to provide a general answer to the question of profitability without more information about the specific company and its operations.
hosting costs for most Apps really isn’t that much…
stay away from AWS, try to build Apps efficiently.<p>Lots of server compute and bandwidth you can get for a few hundred USD a month