Hosting includes 24x7x365 uptime monitoring, urgent support, and all necessary server patches and maintenance. See our SLA for details.
Hosting setup fees are included/waived as part of the initial setup and migration.
1) Compute (Windows)
- Primary EC2 instance:
- Windows Server
- c5.xlarge (4 vCPU / 8 GiB RAM)
- 200 GB EBS
- Always-on
- Auto Scaling capacity:
- Additional c5.xlarge capacity
- ~360 hours/month (to handle daytime peaks, seasonal spikes)
2) Load Balancing
- Application Load Balancer (1)
- Sized for ~2 TB/month processed bytes
3) Web Application Firewall (AWS WAF)
- 1 Web ACL
- 20 custom rules
- 2 custom rule groups
- 2 AWS managed rule groups
- Assumes ~25–60M requests/month
4) CDN / Edge Caching (CloudFront)
- US-only pricing
- 2 TB/month data transfer to internet
- 25M HTTPS requests/month
- ~200 GB/month origin fetch (cache misses)
Traffic & Usage Assumptions (Summary)
- These are intentionally conservative due to lack of historical metrics:
- Data transfer to end users: ~2 TB / month
- HTTPS requests: ~25 million / month
- Traffic pattern: Mid-tier higher-ed public website with seasonal spikes (admissions, enrollment)
- Caching: CloudFront absorbs most traffic; origin load remains low
- Geography: Primarily US-based traffic