>>106110857 (OP)I think you could calculate the hardware costs. I'd say it must not be expensive at all. in fact, I'd guess the biggest expense must be to run it behind cloudflare.
but I have no clue either. you could calculate it. I'm too lazy for that, but I'd guess a couple of servers at most would be enough, if optimized. that must be a problem for 4chan, though, because as far as I understand, it's running an old version of PHP.
the hack showed that 4chan has like 10 servers in total IIRC.