Re:The Fathers of the Internet Urge Today’s Software Enginee...
by ori_b on Monday June 20, 2016 @02:26AM
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> I don't want an article that goes viral to give me huge bills or crush a tiny server. I want automatic scaling.
I'm not sure that an article that goes viral can do this any more, if you're running a simple static site. Even a million hits a day on my website would only be something like 150 gigabytes of traffic a month, if it were sustained. (I'd expect a much smaller spike).
At Amazon's current pricing, that's about $15/month.
Re:The Fathers of the Internet Urge Today’s Software Enginee...
by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC on Monday June 20, 2016 @04:47AM
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Which is to say, at amazon's crazy expensive pricing. Hetzner, for example, sell a tera(!)byte for 1,39 EUR.
• I don't want an article that goes viral to give me huge bills or crush a tiny server. I want automatic scaling.
• I don't want to run or upgrade a web stack. I have a few Linux VPS' and frankly they're painful to maintain. I don't have the time or energy to do this unpaid anymore. If Linux was a better OS maybe this'd be less painful.
• It's free
• They have a WYSIWYG editor that's OK (but merely OK, it's not great). Too many blog platforms want me to write in markdown or whatever.
• If I left Medium I'd lose all the followers who get notified when I write a new blog.
• There is no real value to me in doing so except maybe getting a few more features.
The main thing keeping me there right now is inertia and disinterest in self hosting.