100GB free storage + server-side scripting for $0 — here is how
100 gigabytes of storage. Free SSL certificates. Global CDN. Server-side scripting. Three websites. Zero dollars. People sometimes ask if this is a loss leader — a marketing tactic to acquire users and upsell them later. It is not. The free tier exists because the platform’s architecture makes it economically viable. The math A standard VPS costs roughly $5 per month. It gives you 25GB of storage and enough CPU to serve a few hundred concurrent users. To offer 100GB of storage to a single user, you would need a $20+ server — and that is before factoring in bandwidth costs. ...