Post #3663812
2026-07-08 04:11 UTC
It has already more than paid for itself, since it is essentially free to host in its current form, and I was paying ~$1500/year in hosting fees to host it as a live WPEngine WordPress site (even post-retirement, it remained high-traffic enough it needed high-end hosting to be hassle free). Big debt of gratitude to the WordPress ecosystem for serving me so well for so long though.
I’ve got wordpress sites in production that each do multiple million hits a day. they’re full of some of the worst plugins ever (because wordpress sites living more than a few years seem destined to become hellish katamaris), and still it’s barely at “performance engineering” levels of problem
solving when I see $1500/y of hosting? what the fuck are these clowns doing
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@froztbyte@awful.systems 2026-07-08 04:19
for comparison: you can get two boxes of tin (together in the ballpark of 32~48 cores, 128GB of RAM, ~1TB of NVME or 4~8TB of spinnies) at someone like hetzner, with extra IPv4 allocations, for ~$1355/y I’ve seen media agencies billing in the millions host on less. and venkatesh posts about his blog needing “high end hosting”? the same blog that barely had css or images? absolute clown shit
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@flowerysong@awful.systems 2026-07-08 15:50
Paying to run it on someone else’s computer. WPEngine charge $130/month for the level of their Essential plan that’s supposed to handle 100,000 visits/month. That’s $1560/year, which is near enough to his claim that it’s probably what he was on.