$650k/yr for hosting is an insane amount. It's what happens when you put everything in AWS or Vercel. At Dango we use bare metal servers at OVH with Ryzen 5900X + 128GB RAM + 4TB NVME SSD at $2000/yr. 4 mainnet nodes + 1 testnet + 1 devnet + 1 indexer DB + 1 backup = $16k/yr, that's it. Read this:
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_gabrielShapir028 juli 2025
~$1.5M/year hard costs (excl labor) to run an Ethereum L2. . .
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