Re:DigitalOcean App Platform
by viraptor on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @07:24PM
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That's simply not true. I hit #1 a few times with content hosted on S3. Ended up paying maybe extra $2 those months. I'd be worried if I hosted any large files that came with it, but just a blog post? Barely noticeable.
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Re:DigitalOcean App Platform
by user5994461 on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @07:32PM
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I have images in almost every post. Diagram, schemas, stock images, gif, anything. I guess you don't?
The difference between $2 and $20 will strike when you start having pictures and with $200 the day you (accidentally) put a large image or GIF.
You can lose money accidentally in many ways. I agree you have to watch out, but still disagree with the number of people dismissing S3 as a quick way to bankruptcy if you get HN #1.
Re:DigitalOcean App Platform
by NikolaeVarius on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @09:47PM
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Cloudflare/Cloudfront, restrict origin IP. Done
Re:DigitalOcean App Platform
by bigbluedots on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @11:49PM
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This could be an issue (from your site link in a previous comment):
With an ad blocker, this page takes 83 requests to load a total of 2.31 MB.
Re:DigitalOcean App Platform
by user5994461 on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @04:52AM
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It's because of images and comments, both of which are critical to a blog. There's one request per image no matter what.
Wordpress is actually really good on that, it's resizing the images automatically for thumbnails and mobiles with caching.