Re:Escaping Surprise Bills and Over-Engineered Messes: Why I...
by avereveard on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @01:25AM
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Simple is in the eye of the beholder I guess, and the article writer had issues migrating, check notes, a Python app.
That said while cost limiting vps option like lightsail exists on aws, they are on the high end of cost. Sure you get a good chunk of cpu time compared to the 15$ a year vps from questionable providers, but it's hard to beat that on price, especially for single user experiments.
I wouldn't store sensitive or pii data there, but most web sites aren't a ecommerce or a social either. And while I'm a huge aws fan, my minecraft and factorio servers and openwebui deployment are on some such cheap host at a discount provider. And never went down once. Or they did but I wasn't looking, which is the same tbh for single user stuff.
That said while cost limiting vps option like lightsail exists on aws, they are on the high end of cost. Sure you get a good chunk of cpu time compared to the 15$ a year vps from questionable providers, but it's hard to beat that on price, especially for single user experiments.
I wouldn't store sensitive or pii data there, but most web sites aren't a ecommerce or a social either. And while I'm a huge aws fan, my minecraft and factorio servers and openwebui deployment are on some such cheap host at a discount provider. And never went down once. Or they did but I wasn't looking, which is the same tbh for single user stuff.