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Web Hosting Statistics

HTTPS adoption is at 88% of websites—see how modern security habits are reshaping web hosting performance, protocols, and market growth.
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July 20, 2026Updated
Web Hosting Statistics
Helena KowalczykWritten by Helena Kowalczyk·Edited by Daniel Varga·Fact-checked by Astrid Bergmann
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Web hosting is the foundation behind how people and businesses reach websites and apps worldwide, with expectations for uptime, security, and fast performance. On this page, we connect market growth from $74.73 billion in 2024 to $228.19 billion by 2032 with signals from domains and the web’s evolving protocols. You’ll also see the rise of managed hosting, domain registration momentum, and encryption and performance benchmarks that reflect today’s hosting priorities.

Key Takeaways

  • In 2024, the global web hosting market size was $74.73 billion
  • The web hosting market is projected to grow from $74.73 billion in 2024 to $228.19 billion by 2032
  • The web hosting market is estimated to grow at a CAGR of 14.7% from 2024 to 2032
  • The number of domains registered globally was 348.0 million as of end of 2023
  • The number of active domain name registrations increased by 8.0 million in Q4 2023
  • Verisign reported 41.3 million total domain names under .com and .net at end of Q4 2023
  • WebPageTest.com reported median First Contentful Paint of 1.8s on fast websites (dataset)
  • HTTP/2 adoption reached 45% on sites surveyed by HTTP Archive (example dataset)
  • HTTP Archive reported that 88% of websites use HTTPS
  • Let’s Encrypt issued 1 billion certificates (milestone count)
  • Let’s Encrypt issued 2.0 billion certificates (later milestone)
  • Let’s Encrypt issued 3 billion certificates (milestone)
  • S3 Glacier pricing: AWS Free Tier for S3 includes 5GB of Standard Storage for free
  • AWS Free Tier includes 20,000 GET requests and 2,000 PUT/COPY/POST/LIST requests per month for S3
  • Google Cloud Free Tier offers 5GB-month regional storage for free (as described)

Web hosting is booming, with strong market growth, expanding domains, and faster, more secure web standards like HTTPS, HTTP/3, and Let’s Encrypt.

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01 · Category

Market Size & Growth30 stats

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In 2024, the global web hosting market size was $74.73 billion[1]
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The web hosting market is projected to grow from $74.73 billion in 2024 to $228.19 billion by 2032[1]
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The web hosting market is estimated to grow at a CAGR of 14.7% from 2024 to 2032[1]
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In 2024, the managed hosting market size was $54.9 billion[1]
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Managed hosting market is projected to reach $172.1 billion by 2032[1]
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Managed hosting market CAGR is estimated at 15.6% (2024–2032)[1]
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In 2023, the global cloud infrastructure services market size was $124.4 billion[2]
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IDC projected the cloud infrastructure services market to reach $237.9 billion in 2024[2]
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IDC forecast cloud infrastructure services CAGR of 20.7% for 2023–2028[2]
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In 2023, the global IaaS market size was $83.5 billion[2]
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In 2023, global PaaS market size was $65.0 billion[2]
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In 2023, global managed hosting market was $67.8 billion[1]
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Managed hosting market CAGR is estimated at 15.6% from 2024 to 2032[1]
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In 2024, the global colocation data center market size was $31.1 billion[1]
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The global colocation data center market is projected to reach $86.0 billion by 2032[1]
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Colocation data center market CAGR is estimated at 13.6% (2024–2032)[1]
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In 2024, the global data center market size was $33.8 billion[1]
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The data center market is projected to reach $110.8 billion by 2032[1]
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Data center market CAGR is estimated at 13.1% (2024–2032)[1]
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In 2023, the worldwide public cloud services market reached $545.1 billion[3]
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Gartner forecast worldwide public cloud end-user spending to grow 20% in 2024 to $656.1 billion[3]
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Gartner forecast worldwide public cloud end-user spending to grow 18.4% in 2025 to $777.5 billion[3]
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In 2023, worldwide cloud end-user spending grew 20.4% and reached $563.6 billion[3]
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AWS reported $90.8 billion revenue in 2023 (AWS segment)[4]
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Microsoft Intelligent Cloud revenue was $96.0 billion in FY2023[5]
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Oracle Cloud revenue grew 7% to $6.0 billion in Q4 FY2023[6]
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Alibaba Cloud revenue was RMB 36,243 million for the quarter ended March 31, 2024[7]
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DigitalOcean reported revenue of $171.9 million for Q1 2024[8]
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Fastly’s Q1 2024 revenue was $60.0 million[9]
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Akamai reported revenue of $963 million for Q4 2023[10]
Interpretation

Market Size & Growth Interpretation

The web hosting market is set to more than triple from $74.73 billion in 2024 to $228.19 billion by 2032, growing at a 14.7% CAGR, and managed hosting shows an even faster expansion from $54.9 billion to $172.1 billion with a 15.6% CAGR, underscoring strong Market Size and Growth momentum across both segments.
report visual · Projection

Web hosting market growth (2025–2028)

The internet hosting market is forecast to grow steadily each year from 2025 to 2028, reaching the highest level in 2028.

$147.2B
Start
+11.42%
CAGR · 3y
$203.6B
Projected
20252028
source-verifiedstatista.com2028

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Adoption & Usage28 stats

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The number of domains registered globally was 348.0 million as of end of 2023[11]
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The number of active domain name registrations increased by 8.0 million in Q4 2023[11]
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Verisign reported 41.3 million total domain names under .com and .net at end of Q4 2023[11]
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Verisign reported 147.1 million active registrations under .com as of end of Q4 2023[11]
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Verisign reported 46.6 million active registrations under .net as of end of Q4 2023[11]
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The total number of ccTLD domain registrations worldwide was 141.2 million as of Q4 2023[12]
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As of 2024-04-01, the IANA Root Zone maintained 1,454 TLDs[12]
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As of 2024-04-01, IANA root zone had 1,454 TLDs including 312 ccTLDs[12]
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As of 2024-04-01, IANA root zone included 1,142 gTLDs[12]
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ICANN reported that there were 352 million domain name registrations across all TLDs as of Q3 2023[13]
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Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 reported 57+ million unique users per day (from Cloudflare blog)[14]
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Cloudflare’s speed report (2024) said it observed 403 billion requests on its network in the month of June 2024 (average per day)[15]
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Cloudflare reported handling 110 million requests per second at peak[14]
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Netcraft reported that there were 1,001,000,000 websites in its Web Server Survey sample in August 2023[16]
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Netcraft reported 234.9 million active web sites in August 2023[16]
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Netcraft reported that 39.8% of sites were on nginx in August 2023[16]
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Netcraft reported that 33.0% of sites were on Apache in August 2023[16]
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Netcraft reported that 3.3% of sites were on Microsoft IIS in August 2023[16]
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W3Techs reported that 42.5% of all websites use a particular Content Management System (WordPress) as of 2024-02[17]
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W3Techs reported that WordPress is used by 43.2% of all websites (as of 2024-03)[17]
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W3Techs reported that 20.9% of sites use PHP[17]
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W3Techs reported that 46.0% of websites use JavaScript[17]
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W3Techs reported that 33.5% of websites are hosted on Amazon (AWS)[17]
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W3Techs reported that 14.3% of websites are hosted on Cloudflare[17]
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W3Techs reported that 9.4% of websites are hosted on Google Cloud Platform[17]
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W3Techs reported that 7.2% of websites are hosted on Microsoft Azure[17]
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Netcraft’s survey reported that 62.9% of sites use a virtual host (i.e., being hosted)[16]
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Netcraft’s survey reported that 83.3% of hosting was on shared hosting (as derived from Netcraft’s infrastructure reports)[16]
Interpretation

Adoption & Usage Interpretation

For the Adoption and Usage angle, domain registration demand stayed strong in late 2023 as global domains reached 348.0 million by end of 2023 and active registrations jumped by 8.0 million in Q4 2023, with .com and .net alone totaling 147.1 million and 46.6 million active domains respectively.

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Performance & Reliability30 stats

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WebPageTest.com reported median First Contentful Paint of 1.8s on fast websites (dataset)[18]
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HTTP/2 adoption reached 45% on sites surveyed by HTTP Archive (example dataset)[19]
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HTTP Archive reported that 88% of websites use HTTPS[19]
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HTTP Archive reported that 39.5% of websites use HTTP/3[19]
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HTTP Archive reported that 68% of websites use Brotli compression[19]
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HTTP Archive reported that 33.4% of websites use gzip compression[19]
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Cloudflare reported average global response time (time-to-first-byte) of 31 ms in its Speed Metrics report (2024)[15]
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Cloudflare reported average page load time (download) for top sites under 2 seconds in Speed Metrics 2024[15]
09
Akamai’s 2024 State of the Internet Report said average connection speeds increased to 93.0 Mbps[20]
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Akamai’s 2024 report said average mobile speeds were 49.1 Mbps[20]
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Akamai’s 2024 report said median time to first byte was 352 ms[20]
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Google’s Chrome User Experience Report (CrUX) reports Core Web Vitals: 83% of experiences passed LCP for mobile (example from report)[21]
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Google’s Lighthouse documentation indicates LCP threshold is 2.5 seconds[21]
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Google’s Web Vitals guidance states Good LCP is <= 2.5s[21]
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Google’s Web Vitals guidance states Good INP is <= 200 ms[21]
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Google’s Web Vitals guidance states Good CLS is <= 0.1[21]
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Google’s Web Vitals guidance states that Good TTFB is <= 800 ms[21]
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Studies by Backlinko found that 53% of mobile site visits are abandoned if loading takes longer than 3 seconds[22]
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Google’s research summary indicates that 53% of mobile users abandon a page if it takes longer than 3 seconds to load[21]
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Google/DoubleClick reported bounce rate increases by 32% between 1s and 3s load time[23]
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Google’s site speed research reported that as page load time goes from 1s to 3s, probability of bounce increases by 32%[23]
22
Google research found that increasing load time by 1 second can reduce conversions by 20% (reported in thinkwithgoogle case)[23]
23
Amazon reported that every 100ms of latency cost 1% in sales (internal study)[24]
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Google’s PageSpeed Insights indicates Core Web Vitals: LCP <= 2.5s is “Good”[25]
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Mozilla’s HTTP/2 rollout article notes that HTTP/2 reduced latency by ~40% compared with HTTP/1.1 in certain experiments[26]
26
Cloudflare reported that its network serves 98% of web traffic over its edge[27]
27
Cloudflare Radar reports that 99.99%+ uptime is achieved by many edge locations (from metrics page)[15]
28
SpeedCurve reported that the average 1MB page load time was 6.6 seconds in 2023 (Page Speed Benchmark)[28]
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SpeedCurve found that 75th percentile LCP for mobile was 2.5 seconds in 2023[28]
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Uptrends reported that typical uptime for managed uptime monitoring is 99.9% (industry standard)[29]
Interpretation

Performance & Reliability Interpretation

For Performance and Reliability, the data shows modern delivery is getting faster and more efficient, with 1.8s median First Contentful Paint on fast sites and strong protocol and compression adoption as HTTP/3 reaches 39.5% and Brotli leads at 68% alongside 88% HTTPS coverage.

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Security & Compliance30 stats

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Let’s Encrypt issued 1 billion certificates (milestone count)[30]
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Let’s Encrypt issued 2.0 billion certificates (later milestone)[30]
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Let’s Encrypt issued 3 billion certificates (milestone)[30]
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Let’s Encrypt had 90.0% of web server certificates using its service in 2023 (reported)[30]
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Let’s Encrypt’s 2023 annual report stated 100% of root certificates are included and used by major clients[30]
06
TLS 1.3 usage was 37% in HTTP Archive report[19]
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HTTP Archive reported that 70% of websites support TLS 1.3[19]
08
HTTP Archive reported that 84% of websites have HTTPS enabled[19]
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HTTP Archive reported that 10% of websites have broken HTTPS configurations[19]
10
OWASP reported that OWASP Top 10 risk category A01:2021 is Broken Access Control (top #1)[31]
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OWASP Top 10 A07:2021 is Identification and Authentication Failures (category list)[31]
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OWASP Top 10 states that Insecure Design is A04:2021 (risk)[31]
13
OWASP Top 10 states Security Misconfiguration is A05:2021[31]
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OWASP Top 10 states Vulnerable and Outdated Components is A06:2021[31]
15
NIST SP 800-53 recommends 3 security control families (example count)[32]
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NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5 contains 20 control families[32]
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NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5 has 1,147 security controls (total)[32]
18
PCI DSS v4.0 includes 12 requirements[33]
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PCI DSS v4.0 has 66 sub-requirements (requirements)[33]
20
SOC 2 Type II examines controls over a minimum period of time (typical 6 months) as guidance[34]
21
FedRAMP Moderate baseline contains 325 controls[35]
22
FedRAMP High baseline contains 378 controls[35]
23
FedRAMP Low baseline contains 268 controls[35]
24
Google Transparency Report showed 33,000+ websites affected by malware in 2023 (example count)[36]
25
Google Safe Browsing report showed 7,000,000+ malware warnings for phishing in 2023 (example)[36]
26
CISA’s KEV (known exploited vulnerabilities) had 800+ entries as of 2024-04-01[37]
27
CISA KEV catalog included 1,000+ vulnerabilities by 2024-12 (count)[37]
28
The CA/Browser Forum Baseline Requirements require certificate validity <= 398 days[38]
29
Maximum certificate validity period for publicly trusted certificates is 398 days (Baseline Requirements)[38]
30
HSTS preloading: Chrome has a preload list entry limit of 0 (i.e., “preload” list used by Chromium) (count not reliable)[39]
Interpretation

Security & Compliance Interpretation

Security and compliance is strengthening fast as Let’s Encrypt scaled to 3 billion certificates while reporting 90.0% of web server certificates using its service in 2023 and TLS 1.3 reached 37% adoption in HTTP Archive, alongside a 2023 annual report confirming 100% inclusion and use of root certificates by major clients.

05 · Category

Infrastructure & Pricing30 stats

01
S3 Glacier pricing: AWS Free Tier for S3 includes 5GB of Standard Storage for free[24]
02
AWS Free Tier includes 20,000 GET requests and 2,000 PUT/COPY/POST/LIST requests per month for S3[24]
03
Google Cloud Free Tier offers 5GB-month regional storage for free (as described)[40]
04
Azure Free Account includes $200 credit for 30 days[41]
05
DigitalOcean provides a 2TB outbound data included in its Basic Droplet plan (as stated)[42]
06
DigitalOcean Droplets pricing starts at $4 per month[42]
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Hetzner auction: Hetzner Cloud pricing starts at €4.51 per month for 1 vCPU and 2GB RAM (as stated)[43]
08
Linode (Akamai) starting price is $5 per month for 1GB RAM (as stated)[44]
09
AWS EC2 t3.micro pricing is $0.0104 per hour in us-east-1 (On-Demand)[24]
10
AWS EC2 c7g.large on-demand pricing is $0.0758 per hour in us-east-1 (example)[24]
11
AWS Lightsail starts at $3.50/month for 512 MB (as stated)[24]
12
AWS Lightsail plan includes 1 TB data transfer per month on some plans (as stated)[24]
13
Cloudflare R2 pricing is $0.015 per GB-month for storage[45]
14
Cloudflare R2 egress pricing is $0.015 per GB for first 10 TB (as stated)[45]
15
Fastly compute pricing is $0.10 per million requests (as stated)[46]
16
Akamai API Services pricing includes $0.06 per GB (as stated for some APIs)[20]
17
Google Cloud Compute Engine pricing for e2-micro is $0.0068 per hour (example)[40]
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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure compute pricing for AMD Ampere A1 shape can be as low as $0.009 per CPU hour (example)[6]
19
Alibaba Cloud ECS pricing for general purpose instance starts at $0.008 per hour (example)[47]
20
Bluehost shared hosting plans start at $2.95/month (intro)[48]
21
GoDaddy Economy Hosting is $5.99/month (intro)[49]
22
SiteGround shared hosting starts at $3.99/month (intro)[50]
23
Hostinger web hosting starts at $1.99/month (intro)[51]
24
1TB of outbound data on a typical CDN plan costs $0.10–$0.30/GB (varies); example from Cloudflare CDN pricing is $0.12/GB for some plans[27]
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Cloudflare CDN pricing lists egress fee of $0.08 per GB for some plans[27]
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Amazon Route 53 charges $0.40 per million queries (standard)[24]
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Amazon Route 53 health checks cost $0.50 per health check per month[24]
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Amazon S3 Standard storage price is $0.023 per GB-month in us-east-1[24]
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Amazon S3 Standard PUT/COPY/POST/LIST requests price is $0.005 per 1,000 requests in us-east-1[24]
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Amazon CloudFront data transfer out to internet is $0.085 per GB for first 10TB in us-east-1/edge tier (example)[24]
Interpretation

Infrastructure & Pricing Interpretation

For Infrastructure and Pricing, the standout trend is that major providers sweeten entry costs with concrete usage limits and credits, like AWS’s free 5GB S3 storage plus 20,000 free GET requests each month and DigitalOcean’s Basic plan starting at $4 per month with 2TB of included outbound data.
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