Re:Costs of running a Python webapp for 55k monthly users
by richiecute on Friday September 04, 2020 @04:26AM
(#24372917)
I run a cheap website and here is what I do
- cloudflare free tier for caching, DNS, page rules, etc
- run everything on one VPS(digital ocean, linode, etc) pick cheapest that has specs you need
- any non-trivial storage (media, big files) move to Backblaze B2 it's cheap (you can use free tier cloudflare workers to redirect to B2 for free bandwidth due to Bandwitdth Alliance)
- free static page from Netifly (I can redirect to this with cloudflare in case my VPS falls over or something to provide info/links)
- If I want to look at logs or something I rsync it my local machine (if I cared I could set up a process to push logs/backup etc to private B2 bucket)
You may not need exact same setup, I am optimizing for caching and cheap storage because my site stores/serves lots of media files.
- cloudflare free tier for caching, DNS, page rules, etc
- run everything on one VPS(digital ocean, linode, etc) pick cheapest that has specs you need
- any non-trivial storage (media, big files) move to Backblaze B2 it's cheap (you can use free tier cloudflare workers to redirect to B2 for free bandwidth due to Bandwitdth Alliance)
- free static page from Netifly (I can redirect to this with cloudflare in case my VPS falls over or something to provide info/links)
- If I want to look at logs or something I rsync it my local machine (if I cared I could set up a process to push logs/backup etc to private B2 bucket)
You may not need exact same setup, I am optimizing for caching and cheap storage because my site stores/serves lots of media files.