How to burn the most money with a single click in Azure

Re:How to burn the most money with a single click in Azure by SloopJon on Sunday March 29, 2020 @12:17PM (#22720158)

I know it depends on the site/app, but for a hobbyist, what is the biggest gotcha in a "got super popular over night" situation? If I look at the quotas and overages for low-end plans from the following providers, e.g., it's not obvious to me where the realistic bottlenecks are:

* Firebase Hosting with Firestore

* Cloudflare Workers Sites (using KV)

* Netlify (possibly w/ FaunaDB)

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Re:How to burn the most money with a single click in Azure by ehsankia on Sunday March 29, 2020 @04:32PM (#22722442)

I'd rather my pet project returns 503 after going popular overnight than me footing a huge bill. Especially since my pet projects generally don't generate any revenue anyways. This is the most important feature for me and why I went with GCP.

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Re:How to burn the most money with a single click in Azure by dannyw on Monday March 30, 2020 @12:43AM (#22725319)

You know what's going to be cheaper and simpler? Get some vultr VPSes. Maybe one for your web server and one for a PostgresDB, and another for a Redis if you need it.

Done. For 98% of hobbyist projects, a single Vultr $5/month node is probably far more than enough. For 99%, three Vultr $10/month instances (web, DB, cache) is probably enough.

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