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Re:Tell HN: I DDoSed myself using CloudFront and Lambda Edge... by razemio on Tuesday June 28, 2022 @01:25PM (#31910494)
Pretty easy, OP sounds exactly like a guy who would have been perfectly fine with a single (Hetzner) server. Then these arguments popup and they are most of the time right. I agree with you, that it always depends on the use. However, hurr durr Hetzner Server seems to be the more reasonable choice here (once again).
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Re:Tell HN: I DDoSed myself using CloudFront and Lambda Edge... by huksley on Tuesday June 28, 2022 @04:01PM (#31912302)
OP here.

Hetzner provides incredibly beefy machines for a good price.

I’ve been managing 2 machine cluster setup in the past using Hetzner and it worked fine.

Unfortunately I have had an incident with one machine going bad unexpectedly(RAM issue) and I was forced to spend whole day setting up a new one.

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Re:Tell HN: I DDoSed myself using CloudFront and Lambda Edge... by Mo3 on Tuesday June 28, 2022 @01:34PM (#31910617)
Why? If you had the choice between complete redundancy and infinite scaling by default while having almost zero work, or using a dedicated server that you need to configure and constantly maintain, what would you choose?
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Re:Tell HN: I DDoSed myself using CloudFront and Lambda Edge... by iforgotpassword on Tuesday June 28, 2022 @01:56PM (#31910849)
If with one thing, a single mistake can result in a $5k bill, and with the other I have a guaranteed fixed bill of 50 bucks a month, then unless I have enough money to burn, the choice is crystal clear. Maybe you wipe your butt with 100$ bills. Others aren't that lucky.
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Re:Tell HN: I DDoSed myself using CloudFront and Lambda Edge... by tluyben2 on Tuesday June 28, 2022 @02:37PM (#31911334)
Exactly; if it is ‘the same’ but with a guarantee of max 50$/mo then sure, I would pick that, but that is not the case, also not with caps. So it is an entirely different case and usually the 50$ option actually brings you very far without any financial risk outside that $50/mo.
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Re:Tell HN: I DDoSed myself using CloudFront and Lambda Edge... by Mo3 on Tuesday June 28, 2022 @02:43PM (#31911412)
The choice is only crystal clear until AWS etc implement hard caps to activate if needed. Then having some Lambda functions is not only exponentially cheaper than a whole dedicated server and by default highly available and redundant, but also equally as safe financially wise.
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