--- title: How Much It Costs to Self-Host OTA Updates for 100... description: Self-hosting OTA updates for 100 million React Native users costs about $8,093 a month using Codemagic Patch on DigitalOcean. Infrastructure runs about $843:... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-much-it-costs-to-self-host-ota-updates-for-100-million-users-gtesqpzif twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How Much It Costs to Self-Host OTA Updates for 100 Million Users | daily.dev og:description: Self-hosting OTA updates for 100 million React Native users costs about $8,093 a month using Codemagic Patch on DigitalOcean. Infrastructure runs about $843:... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-much-it-costs-to-self-host-ota-updates-for-100-million-users-gtesqpzif og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/GTEsqPzif.png og:image:alt: How Much It Costs to Self-Host OTA Updates for 100 Million Users og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How Much It Costs to Self-Host OTA Updates for 100 Million Users **[codemagic](https://daily.dev/sources/codemagic)** · 8 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Self-hosting OTA updates for 100 million React Native users costs about $8,093 a month using Codemagic Patch on DigitalOcean. Infrastructure runs about $843: two 2 vCPU droplets, a load balancer, and a managed Postgres instance with a standby, sized at 800 GiB. The license adds $7,250 above a million monthly active users, billed in stacked bands. Cloudflare serves update checks and bundles at $0 cost since downloads never hit the origin server. At smaller scale, 10 thousand users costs $12 a month and 1 million costs $63. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### How much does it cost to self-host OTA updates for a React Native app with 100 million monthly active users using Codemagic Patch? It costs about $8,093 a month total. Infrastructure (two droplets, load balancer, managed Postgres with standby) runs about $843 a month on DigitalOcean, Cloudflare CDN costs $0, and the Codemagic Patch license adds $7,250 a month above the free tier of 1 million monthly active users. _Anyone budgeting OTA infrastructure at scale can track real-world cost breakdowns like this on daily.dev._ ### What server specs do I need to handle Active status posts for 100 million React Native users with Codemagic Patch? A managed Postgres database sized around 800 GiB with 16 GiB RAM and 4 vCPUs, plus two 2 vCPU/8 GiB droplets behind a load balancer. A single 2 vCPU droplet can post about 750 events per second to basic managed Postgres, or up to 4,000/s with batched writes, which is enough to cover roughly 1,000 active posts per second during peak hours. _Developers sizing OTA metric pipelines can compare real throughput numbers like these on daily.dev._ ### Why don't OTA update downloads overload the backend server in Codemagic Patch's architecture? Update checks and bundle downloads are served entirely from a CDN in front of the storage hostname, so device download traffic never reaches the origin server. Only small metric posts (Downloaded, Ready, Applied, and a daily Active ping) hit the server, meaning no queue, Redis, API gateway, autoscaling, or multi-region Postgres is required. _Engineers designing scalable update-check architectures can follow approaches like this on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Self-hosted OTA for an hour a month](https://daily.dev/posts/self-hosted-ota-for-an-hour-a-month-1p5i8qthk) · codemagic · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [How to Save $3,774 a Month with Codemagic Patch](https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-save-3-774-a-month-with-codemagic-patch-c4njpae9v) · ITNEXT · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [React Native Over-the-Air Updates in 2026: Skip the App Store Wait with Codemagic CodePush](https://daily.dev/posts/react-native-over-the-air-updates-in-2026-skip-the-app-store-wait-with-codemagic-codepush-2jba3bybj) · codemagic · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Relaunching TeamReach: how OTA updates saved a 5,000,000-user cutover — Expo blog](https://daily.dev/posts/relaunching-teamreach-how-ota-updates-saved-a-5-000-000-user-cutover-expo-blog-0gbkybyja) · Expo Blog · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#postgresql](https://daily.dev/tags/postgresql), [#react-native](https://daily.dev/tags/react-native), [#self-hosting](https://daily.dev/tags/self-hosting), [#digitalocean](https://daily.dev/tags/digitalocean) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/how-much-it-costs-to-self-host-ota-updates-for-100-million-users-gtesqpzif) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"How Much It Costs to Self-Host OTA Updates for 100 Million Users","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-much-it-costs-to-self-host-ota-updates-for-100-million-users-gtesqpzif","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-much-it-costs-to-self-host-ota-updates-for-100-million-users-gtesqpzif"},"datePublished":"2026-10-28T12:16:15.961Z","dateModified":"2026-10-28T15:00:55.189Z","description":"Self-hosting OTA updates for 100 million React Native users costs about $8,093 a month using Codemagic Patch on DigitalOcean. 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