Ask HN: Cheap back end for static website

Re:Ask HN: Cheap back end for static website by aru on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @08:05PM (#27991283)

If your site has less < 5,000 users a month, I can't imagine exceeding Lambda's free tier limit. You definitely want to go serverless if budget's a constraint.

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Re:Ask HN: Cheap back end for static website by vmception on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @08:25PM (#27991394)

I'm not going to make a new AWS account to take advantage of the free tier

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Re:Ask HN: Cheap back end for static website by 1f60c on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @08:56PM (#27991569)

AWS Lambda is (currently) part of the "Always free" tier, with up to 1 million(!) requests per month. (See: https://aws.amazon.com/free/?all-free-tier.sort-by=item.addi...)

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Re:Ask HN: Cheap back end for static website by vmception on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @08:58PM (#27991575)

wow thanks!

the next question is whether I should have just one lambda call that gets my external data and serves it to the clientside requester

or if I should have one lambda that does gets my external data on a timed job, caches the response in a database, and a separate lambda that reads the response

on AWS it seems the databases are the most expensive thing

guess I could also just cross that bridge when I get there, just feel like I could get spammed to a big bill even if I put in some session variables client side

this is just a static website trying to power a data visualization on semi-live data

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