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Re:The Fathers of the Internet Urge Today’s Software Enginee... by ori_b on Monday June 20, 2016 @02:26AM (#11936391)
> 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.

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Re:The Fathers of the Internet Urge Today’s Software Enginee... by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC on Monday June 20, 2016 @04:47AM (#11936846)
Which is to say, at amazon's crazy expensive pricing. Hetzner, for example, sell a tera(!)byte for 1,39 EUR.
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