Re:Serverless: slower and more expensive
by chmod775 on Friday September 27, 2019 @07:09AM
(#21090573)
The frontend is a ~$30 bucks VPS with OVH. This thing serves about 2 million users / month and about 20k concurrent users (with persistent websocket connections etc.).
The backend is:
- $10 VPS with OVH + $10 VPS as a fallback with another provider for my DB.
- $5 VPS with OVH to host my central debian package repository.
- About $500 worth of dedicated servers for serving hundreds of TB of files a month (usually below one petabyte though). This is not really relevant to this discussion, because OPs application doesn't have a file serving aspect to it. His application is basically just my frontend and a DB.
- Small files and thumbnails go through cloudflare for another $20 / month. But the main site and most files don't use cloudflare (they'd kick me out if I passed that kind of traffic through them). They serve about 30TB-70TB of traffic a month on my account.
The backend is:
- $10 VPS with OVH + $10 VPS as a fallback with another provider for my DB. - $5 VPS with OVH to host my central debian package repository.
- About $500 worth of dedicated servers for serving hundreds of TB of files a month (usually below one petabyte though). This is not really relevant to this discussion, because OPs application doesn't have a file serving aspect to it. His application is basically just my frontend and a DB.
- Small files and thumbnails go through cloudflare for another $20 / month. But the main site and most files don't use cloudflare (they'd kick me out if I passed that kind of traffic through them). They serve about 30TB-70TB of traffic a month on my account.