Just for context at 39M requests at $370 you are spending ~0.001 cent per reques...

Just for context at 39M requests at $370 you are spending ~0.001 cent per request. That's only counting the API. That's not counting their Database costs (which if they are archiving a large part of the internet would be sizable).

For reference I've had times where I was getting ~1000 requests/day/site on a $17/year VM. This was done with Cloudflare caching and caching PHP output.

This comes out to...

    * `ls /var/www/ -1 | wc -l`: 17
    * (1000 * 30 days) = 30000req/month/site = 30k * 17/month
    * 17 / 12 = $1.5/month

0.00029411764 cents / request

That means my request, on a crappy VPS serving Wordpress, some custom static sites, and a few other services (PayPal API handling, emailing, uptime monitoring, etc), cost only 30% as much as the requests described in this post!

PHP-FPM, Lighttpd, and MySQL's small config are magical.