Cost of serving billions of images per month
The final monthly breakdown for April 2016 was:
Web Servers: $2,731.23
Monitoring: $630.00
Data Processing: $1,000.00
Image Hosting: $11,170.00
Other: $2,127.39Total (USD): $17,658.62
Now
A lot has changed. Web Server costs breakdown for February 2019Monitoring
Total monthly cost: $7,679
Our team is small for Unsplash’s size, with our total product team counting in at just 11 people. Data processing costs breakdown for February 2019Image Hosting
Total monthly cost: $42,408
Imgix is our single biggest expense, but we love it.
Source: medium.com