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Re:Netlify just sent me a $104K bill for a simple static site by rjzzleep on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @05:54AM (#39522574)
With a properly configured nginx, you can easily serve 10's of thousands of requests a second on vserver type hardware. Netlify just offers these build pipeline kind of static site with cms UI.

But this is a good reminder why my gut feeling always made me avoid these overengineered solutions.

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Re:Netlify just sent me a $104K bill for a simple static site by hirako2000 on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @08:47AM (#39524033)
They aren't engineered, they subsidize (more) enginnering effort , and (are meant to) cost less as a result.

They do. But of course maximizing profit is the sole true prerogative of capitalist enterprises. And the market is not totally competitive. So yes your intuition was correct, to be cautious against over enginnered pricing to get y'a.

I mean those companies cater to hobbyist. Then ...

Render seems more fair-play. Until a change of mgt occurs of course.

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Re:Netlify just sent me a $104K bill for a simple static site by mcapodici on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @04:01PM (#39529872)
It wasn't the engineering that did it, it was the egress charges. But I think the IaaS tend to charge more for this than the clouds, who in turn charge more than the "servers for rent" people.
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