Ask HN: How do you make sure your servers are up as a single founder?

Re:Ask HN: How do you make sure your servers are up as a sin... by randlet on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @04:22PM (#21467486)

With regards to AWS RDS & EC2 multi-az deploys and cost...buy reserved instances! It is much cheaper if you can afford to pay up front for 1yr or 3 years at a time.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you make sure your servers are up as a sin... by jmstfv on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @04:25PM (#21467525)

I do consider that but I'm still early in this game. My AWS spending is $1.38/day on EC2 and $1.05/day on RDS, all covered by AWS credit: https://tryhexadecimal.com/costs

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Re:Ask HN: How do you make sure your servers are up as a sin... by threeseed on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @04:38PM (#21467682)

For EC2 you really should be using spot fleets and making sure your architecture can support instances coming and going.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you make sure your servers are up as a sin... by randlet on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @07:41PM (#21469269)

I need to keep exactly two instances running (in separate AZs) and will never need to scale up beyond that...is it still worth investigating spot fleets in this case?

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