the expensive bit of serving big websites is the ads, the tracking, the analytics, the vast internal teams focused on endless avb testing etc. if you boil Wikipedia down it's mostly static pages with a crud editor. it's cached to the moon and back, most pages don't change. the pages are tiny. they're not paying aws for bandwidth.
bawolff|1 year ago
Generally the pages that are viewed a lot change a lot. Sure, there is a long tail of mostly static pages, but that is not super relavent.