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Engineering
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Comparing platform costs honestly
What hosting actually costs once you scale past a hobby project.
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Both platforms are close to free until they are suddenly not, and the cliff is in a different place for each.
Where the money goes
- Bandwidth is rarely the problem for content sites
- Function invocations are the problem for anything interactive
- Image optimisation is the surprise on nearly every bill
- Build minutes matter only if your build is slow, which is fixable
Model your actual traffic shape before choosing. The published per-unit prices are almost never the deciding factor.