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Mike

If I may make an estimate on what your costs are for just infrastructure (Heroku, Fastly, Postgres, Emailing, Aloglia), I'd guess:

Heroku: 2x Standard Dyno - $50

Fastly: Assuming you do 1024 GB (1 TB) of bandwidth on average, with 100,000,000 file requests it's $198 per month

Postgres: I'd assume Standard 0, with 2 GB ram, 64 GB storage, 120 active connections, as most content hits Fastly you wouldn't need that many active connections, mainly storage for the data. Under this assumption that's $50 per month.

Mailchimp: I'd take a higher guess at 50,000 subscribers for a baseline price point, that's $240 per month

Searching via Algolia: Assuming 100k records, with 100k indexing ops, you're looking at $70 per month

All in all, I'd guess a high line cost of $608 per month to run infrastructure wise, I'm going to safely assume I'm off, as I'm not sure of the configuration of all services mentioned, and I like to estimate on the higher side.

Within a reasonable guess I'd say around the $400 mark all-in, with peak estimates around $600-$700 for sudden influxes of traffic when not optimized, etc.