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Re:I Followed the Official AWS Amplify Guide and Was Charged... by tonetegeatinst on Thursday November 14, 2024 @04:48AM (#42134568)
Love the tool and UI you built. I homelab and while not always on 24/7 its way more affordable to run on my own bare metal than pay a cloud provider. I also get super fast local speeds.
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Re:I Followed the Official AWS Amplify Guide and Was Charged... by bambax on Thursday November 14, 2024 @04:55AM (#42134612)
> I homelab

Didn't know there was a verb for it! I "homelab" too and so far am very happy. With a (free) CDN in front of it it can handle spikes in traffic (that are rare anyways), and everything is simple and mostly free (since the machines are already there).

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Re:I Followed the Official AWS Amplify Guide and Was Charged... by mst on Thursday November 14, 2024 @06:43AM (#42135271)
I rent a moderate sized Hetner box running FreeBSD and just spin up a jail (zfs helps here) or if necessary a bhyve VM per 'thing.'

I'd fire a box up at home instead but at ~£35/mo I can never quite find the motivation compared to spending the time hacking on one of my actual projects instead.

(I do suspect if I ever -did- find the motivation I'd wonder why I hadn't done so sooner; so it goes)

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