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# [Why you need to stop paying monthly hosting fees](https://dev.keithrainz.me/why-you-need-to-stop-paying-monthly-hosting-fees?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

Many of us prefer hosting our apps and websites on big servers with more RAM, storage, CPU etc. Most of these hosting platforms, charge from $6 per month, for example Vultr. Vultr offers an $6 per month VPS with 1 GG RAM, 1 CPU, 32 GB NVM storage etc...

Aug 31, 2020 · 2 min read · dev.keithrainz.me  
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## Written by

[Keith Rainz](https://hashnode.com/@keithzm)

@keithzm · Lusaka, Zambia

  
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Freelancer in digital marketing and web dev.

I am a self-taught developer from Lusaka Zambia. I am also a blogger and a YouTuber.

## Responses 2

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[Phillip Ninan](https://hashnode.com/@phillip_ninan)

[Sep 2, 2020](https://hashnode.com/posts/why-you-need-to-stop-paying-monthly-hosting-fees/5f4d47a6e4e2417295cc552a/comment/5f50190bc48c6b29cd2ece3e)

I currently have a WordPress hosted on AWS. My last month's bill was only $6.60. I don't really have a ton of traffic so I imagine that could get more expensive. But AWS was built for scalability!

[AWS LightSail](https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/) starts @ $3.50 / month and is surprisingly easy to set up! I found some pretty easy to follow tutorials online. If you are interested in getting your feet wet within the AWS ecosystem I strongly advise going this route :).

On a side note, AWS also has a service called [AWS Fargate](https://aws.amazon.com/fargate/) which charges you by the resources you need (RAM / CPU). I personally use [AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS)](https://aws.amazon.com/ecs/) to run Fargate "tasks".

[blog.phillipninan.com](https://blog.phillipninan.com/)

[Keith Rainz](https://hashnode.com/@keithzm)

[Sep 3, 2020](https://hashnode.com/posts/why-you-need-to-stop-paying-monthly-hosting-fees/5f4d47a6e4e2417295cc552a/comment/5f50190bc48c6b29cd2ece3e#reply-5f51097ec48c6b29cd2ed9b3)

Will check it out