Maybe not, but they need more than zero.

Regardless, even if you think its not a neccesary expenditure (obviously there is a big gap between bare minimum and healthy), its still an expenditure on hosting the site. The person i was responding to was claiming it wasnt related to the website.

300 employees is an extremely low number of employees for a project of this scope.

I think some of yall need to think about how this would be run if it was a company. There would be thousands of employees, realistically.

Ah yes, I too am something of an armchair engineer and I can speak confidently on topics I have no insight into.