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Re:How to Get 100/100 Google Page Speed Score with Middleman... by kaishiro on Friday October 20, 2017 @09:10PM (#15520127)
For what you get out of the box with this setup (or Google Cloud Storage + Cloud Load Balancing/CDN) it actually can be "dirt cheap", depending on your business goals/traffic. Just like anything, it depends on what you value/what your time is worth. The pricing difference would need to be several (several) orders of magnitude larger than it is for me to worry about the few dollars a month I'm spending on each static site sitting in S3/Cloud Storage.

Also, if there is an issue with either of these it's far easier for me to justify downtime to a client by saying "Amazon us-east is down, here's Amazon's status page" then trying to explain who OVH is.

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Re:How to Get 100/100 Google Page Speed Score with Middleman... by codedokode on Saturday October 21, 2017 @03:00AM (#15520988)
You will need to spend time to set up your site for Amazon or for cheap DO instance, I don't see what you can save here. You can have your own virtual server with root privileges and iptables and custom software and with Amazon you will have to pay for every new feature.
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Re:How to Get 100/100 Google Page Speed Score with Middleman... by kaishiro on Saturday October 21, 2017 @03:56AM (#15521095)
As I said, it really just comes down to business goals. Setting up a shared DO box with iptables isnt worth my time when it's still just a single DO box at the end of the day.

S3 + Cloudfront + ad hoc Lambdas is a far far easier cost benefit ratio when it comes out what my time is worth. To each their own :)

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Re:How to Get 100/100 Google Page Speed Score with Middleman... by oelmekki on Saturday October 21, 2017 @05:21AM (#15521258)
I'm under the impression that by "it's not worth of my time", you actually mean "I don't like sysadmin" :)
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Re:How to Get 100/100 Google Page Speed Score with Middleman... by kaishiro on Saturday October 21, 2017 @06:52AM (#15521432)
Ha. Well, it's more that there are things I can justify charging for and things I cannot. Standing up a sub par solution for a larger investment of time doesn't make a ton of fiscal sense to myself or my clients.
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Re:How to Get 100/100 Google Page Speed Score with Middleman... by oelmekki on Saturday October 21, 2017 @10:42AM (#15521976)
Yeah indeed, for contract customers, better go with something you're confident everybody will already know, since other people will have to manage it when you won't be there anymore.

In a previous startup I was CTO and founder for, I used a gentoo and managed everything possible by myself. This was not especially costly in time because I was already used to it and efficient, and we managed that way to stay for 3 years with 70€/mo in infrastructure cost. This has its advantages too :)

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Re:How to Get 100/100 Google Page Speed Score with Middleman... by ngrilly on Saturday October 21, 2017 @11:03AM (#15522051)
Setting iptables is not absolutely necessary since DO offers a built-in firewall.
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