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Re:Cloudflare was down by rodgerd on Friday July 17, 2020 @06:18PM (#23876637)
Back in 2000 a joke project of mine got slashdotted. Ran outta bandwidth before anything else.
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Re:Cloudflare was down by ci5er on Friday July 17, 2020 @06:53PM (#23876962)
With DO, these days, they don't run me out of bandwidth, but my instance falls over (depending on what I am doing - which ain't much), but with AWS, they auto-scale and I get a $5000 bill at the end of the month. I prefer the former.
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Re:Cloudflare was down by rodgerd on Saturday July 18, 2020 @05:30PM (#23885007)
Yeah, the bandwidth overage was a grand, give or take. It was a valuable lesson in a number of ways, and why for any personal things I wouldn't touch AWS with a shitty stick.
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Re:Cloudflare was down by deadbunny on Friday July 17, 2020 @07:54PM (#23877453)
AWS only auto scales if you configure it to...
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Re:Cloudflare was down by ci5er on Friday July 17, 2020 @08:39PM (#23877815)
Yeah, but I'm stupid and didn't understand all the switches.
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Re:Cloudflare was down by NikolaeVarius on Friday July 17, 2020 @10:58PM (#23878527)
S3 will scale as much as is needed by itself
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