Link-in-bio at viral scale
One static-ish page per creator, millions of profile views — edge compute wins until you add accounts.
Linktree-style products look simple: a tiny SSR page, minimal storage per user, and brutal egress when a creator blows up on TikTok. At 200k daily profile views we keep the database optional and lean on edge SSR — the same shape that made Wordle cheap, but with logged-in creators and analytics.
The sensible way
Render stack at $1511.80/mo
Run everything on Render
At 200K DAU · fit score 100/100
Cost curve — top 3 stacks
Total monthly hosting cost at each traffic level (same app profile, different providers).
| DAU | Render stack | Heroku stack | Vercel-first stack |
|---|---|---|---|
| 100 | $16.30/mo | $29/mo | $19/mo |
| 1K | $21.70/mo | $70/mo | $60/mo |
| 10K | $81.50/mo | $70/mo | $80/mo |
| 100K | $745.90/mo | $79/mo | $196.40/mo |
Service breakdown — Render stack
- Web Service · RenderStarter$324/mo
- Postgres · RenderBasic 1GB$1177.80/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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