Getting a cost estimate is proving to be difficult for me. Could you also provide the platforms that are used? Examples include SSL, hosting, and domain registration.
Prices differ, but Let’s Encrypt, Namecheap, and AWS all performed admirably.
By “worked well,” what do you mean? What was the total cost of your purchases?
Expenses are determined by your activity. Are you storing a lot of data? Something involving a lot of computing, like processing big datasets? advertising plan? I’m interested in seeing some comments as well, although it’s probably less helpful to compare statistics directly instead of the actions people take to cut expenses. For example, how hands-on is the system?
My only worry is how traffic would change if there was an unexpected spike in demand and how that would impact expenses. According to your inquiry, it is rather data-heavy, like to Canva, but not particularly computationally demanding.
domain namecheap ($14 / year)
Hettner for a VPS, $5 per month
SSL cloudflare (free)
For my type of business, the monthly total cost of $6 was sufficient for over 1,000 users. I upgraded from a VPS to a dedicated server once I grew larger, which cost about $40 a month.
How many VPS instances do you run? or is this limited to one instance? and do you use different instances to host your front end and back end? And where is your database kept? Does that apply to your breakdown as well?
Everything can fit into one VPS with just 1000 users; if you need more, you can always upgrade to a more capable VPS. However, in all honesty, individuals have a tendency to overengineer things and overpay when it would be easier to go lean, improve, and spend money when necessary.
namecheap.com for domains
VM’s digital ocean droplet
For DB, digitalocean maintained PostgreSQL.
Using Netlify to launch frontend
About fifty dollars a month, that’s all.