Do you really need that cloud hosting package? If you’re just running a website — no matter whether large or very large — you probably don’t and should settle for basic hosting. This is the point that [Thomas Millar] argues, taking the reader through an example of a big site like Business Insider, and their realistic bandwidth needs.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://hackaday.com/2024/04/09/on-cloud-computing-and-learning-to-say-no/