Re:Ask HN: So you moved off Heroku, where did you go?
by movedx on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @06:59AM
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> Am I missing something?
No, but you're not the OP above my comment, so my question still stands.
> (eg use the Sydney AWS region, put Cloudflare in front of it and then watch your traffic to/from Sydney take a round trip via the US or Singapore)
I don't understand? I don't have this issue (I'm in Brisbane; I use ap-southeast-2)
> [c] this does nothing for non-static assets
Non-static assets are going to be very tiny in most cases, and the problem then becomes about volume. If you've got volume and your business model doesn't suck, then you can afford the rate (my understanding is AWS' network egress charges are gross compared to other vendors.)
[a] which is fine if you're happy with the inflexibility that free Cloudflare offers. And you live in a country where the free tier doesn't have horrible routing (eg use the Sydney AWS region, put Cloudflare in front of it and then watch your traffic to/from Sydney take a round trip via the US or Singapore)
[b] every single AWS service charges egress fees (ie Cloudfront doesn't help at all)
[c] this does nothing for non-static assets
Am I missing something?