Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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The site https://jmail.world/ absolutely blew up and was hit with a unexpected bill. My thoughts on what that bill was made up of and how to avoid this in your projects.

00:00 Intro
00:45 Compute
01:45 Bandwidth
03:08 Data Preloading
04:56 Requests
06:43 Analytics
08:37 Would Cloudflare Be Cheaper
09:34 Cloudflare Bandwidth
10:18 Cloudflare Requests
13:06 Cloudflare Analytics
13:22 Run on a VPS?
14:11 My Thoughts