How Agencies Can Save Hundreds or Thousands Of Dollars Every Year
(And take back control while doing it!)
Savings Summary
Kinsta: 30% - 54%
Rocket.net: 16% - 45%
Servbolt: 83% - 89%
WPEngine: 16% - 45%
Assumptions
100 Sites Total
80 Small Sites
10 Medium Sites
10 Large / Heavy Sites
Costs Per Host
Kinsta: $1,200 / Month
Rocket.net: $1,000/ Month
Servbolt: $5,000/ Month
WPEngine & Flywheel: $1,000/ Month
(estimate with discounts)
Discussion & Notes
Our scenario in the image above grants you a ridiculous amount diskspace across all servers - more than 1 TB. And includes multiple terabytes of traffic. Not to mention tons of CPU cores.
We were generous in how we allocated resources and assumed only moderate caching. You can reduce costs even further by aggressively caching the small catalog-style sites.
Most standard hosts severely limit diskspace and visits even when the number of sites allowed is 100 or more.
Some of the hosts mentioned above will only allow as little as 80 GB for 100 sites.
Some hosts entice you with "unlimited php workers" but never bother to tell you that means nothing if they limit cpu cycles.
You get the best savings by using Hetzner as the provider. However, they only have two data centers in the US.
You can get a blend of savings by distributing your servers between the three providers shown above.
Obviously these are only raw numbers. It does not take into account the cost of your time or other misc. expenses you might encounter as you take control of your own servers.