Last month I finally did some math I'd been putting off: how much I was actually paying to keep a bunch of sites online.

$39/month on Hostinger (about R$200, I'm in Brazil). For hosting 10+ sites: product landing pages, blogs, a couple of small tools. Every month, on autopilot, straight off the card.

Then I asked myself the obvious question I'd been avoiding: out of those 10+ sites, how many actually need a server running 24/7?

Answer: none.

What these sites actually are