I'm not sure that you quite realize that Troy's intention here is to eventually be soaking a whole lot of zeroes with this. Add on to that that, if people are relying on this as a service, it had better not go down under any remotely plausible circumstances, and some growth-hacker's dedicated server from Hetzner or whatever is unsuitable. Edge caching only blunts sufficiently this if everybody's searching for the same passwords and proving that that's the case is a burden you have not shouldered.
To that end, "just use a VPS or a cheap dedicated server" sounds a whole lot like the middlebrow thing we're supposed to not be fans of around here.
To that end, "just use a VPS or a cheap dedicated server" sounds a whole lot like the middlebrow thing we're supposed to not be fans of around here.