It Took Me a Decade to Find the Perfect Personal Website Stack

Re:It Took Me a Decade to Find the Perfect Personal Website ... by Gigachad on Sunday July 09, 2023 @09:22PM (#36660915)

I find the idea of using AWS for personal use absolutely terrifying. You are signing up for literally unlimited costs. If my site gets ddosed, I don’t want a $100,000 bill, I want the site to go offline.

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Re:It Took Me a Decade to Find the Perfect Personal Website ... by hewlett on Sunday July 09, 2023 @10:58PM (#36661530)

then use Lightsail or set a maximum size for your ec2 autoscaling group

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Re:It Took Me a Decade to Find the Perfect Personal Website ... by klysm on Sunday July 09, 2023 @11:57PM (#36661894)

But outbound traffic

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Re:It Took Me a Decade to Find the Perfect Personal Website ... by ashconnor on Monday July 10, 2023 @01:45AM (#36662551)

Cloudflare Pages is free.

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Re:It Took Me a Decade to Find the Perfect Personal Website ... by c7DJTLrn on Monday July 10, 2023 @02:24AM (#36662793)

Or stop overengineering and use a PaaS like Netlify.

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Re:It Took Me a Decade to Find the Perfect Personal Website ... by ladzoppelin on Monday July 10, 2023 @03:51AM (#36663276)

Honestly this is a valid concern. I am not knocking AWS and they are working with us but $100000 in one week from bad code in a Java service is really nerve racking. For the record the only reason I use AWS over other clouds is because they actually work with you when stuff like this happens. ( Its taking a long time but we are hopeful)

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Re:It Took Me a Decade to Find the Perfect Personal Website ... by meowface on Monday July 10, 2023 @08:18AM (#36665264)

It's very odd that AWS doesn't support spending caps. A lot of other services and paid APIs I use have them, and they save me a ton of stress.

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Re:It Took Me a Decade to Find the Perfect Personal Website ... by TeMPOraL on Monday July 10, 2023 @08:51AM (#36665603)

As long as enough people use AWS despite the lack of spending caps and the stress it causes, it just means Amazon effectively monetizing your risk tolerance.

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