They mention a $1,500 budget per month but then omit things critical to understanding how they achieve that cost point.
What is actually more interesting is to understand what portion is spent on servers versus bandwidth - and what hardware configuration they use to host the site. For example, Is $1,500/mo just paying for colo costs + bandwidth, with already owned recycled hardware (think last gen hardware that you can get at steep discounts from eBay / used hardware resellers...)
That would have been way more interesting to know given the blog title than the choice of infrastructure software they use.
What is actually more interesting is to understand what portion is spent on servers versus bandwidth - and what hardware configuration they use to host the site. For example, Is $1,500/mo just paying for colo costs + bandwidth, with already owned recycled hardware (think last gen hardware that you can get at steep discounts from eBay / used hardware resellers...)
That would have been way more interesting to know given the blog title than the choice of infrastructure software they use.