Shopify storefront
Product pages, checkout, and image CDN — e-commerce hosting where storage and egress show up fast.
A Shopify-like store is SSR product pages, a relational database for orders and inventory, and object storage for product photos at multiple resolutions. We model 5k daily shoppers with moderate catalog size — enough traffic that a managed PaaS vs edge stack tradeoff actually matters.
The sensible way
DigitalOcean stack at $117.96/mo
Run everything on DigitalOcean
At 5K DAU · fit score 87/100
Cost curve — top 3 stacks
Total monthly hosting cost at each traffic level (same app profile, different providers).
| DAU | DigitalOcean stack | Cloudflare stack | AWS (serverless) stack |
|---|---|---|---|
| 100 | $41/mo | $53.33/mo | $23.59/mo |
| 1K | $51.64/mo | $594.64/mo | $144.71/mo |
| 10K | $216.14/mo | $6018.17/mo | $1357.40/mo |
| 100K | $2070.02/mo | $60316.15/mo | $13485.10/mo |
Service breakdown — DigitalOcean stack
- Droplets · DigitalOceanBasic 1GB$7.91/mo
- Managed Postgres · DigitalOceanBasic 2GB RAM$30/mo
- Spaces · DigitalOceanStandard$80.05/mo
These are real prices from our provider knowledge base, computed with the same engine as our stack reports.
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