Discord at scale
Guilds, channels, and always-on voice-adjacent presence — priced as a realtime stack, not a chat widget.
Discord-shaped apps need websockets for presence and messages, Postgres for guilds and permissions, and enough always-on compute to keep connection fan-out from melting down. At 50k daily actives we assume heavy read volume and moderate uploads — the kind of profile where Fly Machines and Railway Redis actually appear in the top stacks.
The sensible way
Linode (Akamai)-first stack at $496.02/mo
Linode (Akamai) compute with best-fit add-ons
At 50K DAU · fit score 80/100
Cost curve — top 3 stacks
Total monthly hosting cost at each traffic level (same app profile, different providers).
| DAU | Linode (Akamai)-first stack | Vultr-first stack | DigitalOcean-first stack |
|---|---|---|---|
| 100 | $50/mo | $50/mo | $51/mo |
| 1K | $50.86/mo | $50.86/mo | $51.86/mo |
| 10K | $122.60/mo | $123.88/mo | $148.36/mo |
| 100K | $985.70/mo | $985.46/mo | $1337.46/mo |
Service breakdown — Linode (Akamai)-first stack
- Linode Instances · Linode (Akamai)Linode 4GB$163.04/mo
- Managed Postgres · DigitalOceanBasic 2GB RAM$30/mo
- Object Storage · Linode (Akamai)Standard$292.98/mo
- Key Value · RenderStarter$10/mo
These are real prices from our provider knowledge base, computed with the same engine as our stack reports.
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