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The article talks about a high traffic site, maybe a top 10 one or something like that. It is already a moon business, not a moonshot. For a small blog or local business, sure a bit of downtime is OK but why are they even bare metal when squarespace etc. exists.

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> The article talks about a high traffic site, maybe a top 10 one

The article explicitly restricts the problem space to top 1000 websites.

I've taken 30 seconds to browse through top 1000 websites and outside of the usual suspects up top, most of them look like https://www.pro-football-reference.com or https://www.tempo.co which to me are not far off blogs and local businesses.

Well for a top 10 site, it's $1000 a month dedicated or $1,000,000 a month cloud.

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