--- title: How we handle 80TB and 5M page views a month for under $400 description: Poly Haven has 5 million pageviews and 80 terabytes of traffic every month for under $400. Cloudflare All the Way is the reason we can do what we do so easily... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-we-handle-80tb-and-5m-page-views-a-month-for-under-400-1-nzfbgsn twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How we handle 80TB and 5M page views a month for under $400 | daily.dev og:description: Poly Haven has 5 million pageviews and 80 terabytes of traffic every month for under $400. Cloudflare All the Way is the reason we can do what we do so easily... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-we-handle-80tb-and-5m-page-views-a-month-for-under-400-1-nzfbgsn og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/1-nZFBGSN.png og:image:alt: How we handle 80TB and 5M page views a month for under $400 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 we handle 80TB and 5M page views a month for under $400 **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 8 min read · 213 upvotes · 16 comments ## Summary Poly Haven has 5 million pageviews and 80 terabytes of traffic every month for under $400. Cloudflare All the Way is the reason we can do what we do so easily and so affordably. Nextjs is a framework created by Vercel which improves performance for users around the world. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@dailydevtips** · 8 upvotes > Really cool to see such a detailed break down. > Reminder to myself I should try out Argo 👀 **@anam0927** · 5 upvotes > Awesome read!!! > > > These kind of actual practical blogs are actually quite rare! **@fredoist** · 2 upvotes > What a great article, Cloudflare seems to be the solution to manage substantial amounts of traffic. Unfortunately, some cloud providers do not work well with Cloudflare such as Netlify as they intend to offer their own platform as solution. **@zi683** · 1 upvotes > Never thought I could learn so much about the financial decision making that goes behind a website/company. Love the transparency. **@qorbani** · 1 upvotes > Great tricks about handling bandwidth and alternative solutions for storage 👌 ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Unveils Schedule for KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Europe 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-unveils-schedule-for-kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe-2026-ikhcoa5cb) · CNCF · 2 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Debuts KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Japan 2026 Schedule](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-debuts-kubecon-cloudnativecon-japan-2026-schedule-xp5pyudub) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#cicd](https://daily.dev/tags/cicd), [#cloudflare](https://daily.dev/tags/cloudflare), [#general-programming](https://daily.dev/tags/general-programming), [#webdev](https://daily.dev/tags/webdev) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/how-we-handle-80tb-and-5m-page-views-a-month-for-under-400-1-nzfbgsn) ```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 we handle 80TB and 5M page views a month for under $400","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-we-handle-80tb-and-5m-page-views-a-month-for-under-400-1-nzfbgsn","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-we-handle-80tb-and-5m-page-views-a-month-for-under-400-1-nzfbgsn"},"datePublished":"2022-01-06T04:29:03.043Z","dateModified":"2026-03-15T04:57:04.505Z","description":"Poly Haven has 5 million pageviews and 80 terabytes of traffic every month for under $400. 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