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Re:Escaping Surprise Bills and Over-Engineered Messes: Why I... by lvturner on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @01:31AM (#42928818)
I just went down the rabbit hole of trying to host a small app for free(ish) on cloud solutions, only to remember that I have a 2GB fiber line and a raspberry pi sitting idle - if it ever gets so popular that I outgrow this, it'll be a nice problem to have.
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Re:Escaping Surprise Bills and Over-Engineered Messes: Why I... by fm2606 on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @05:12AM (#42930532)
Yeah I did the same thing about a year ago only on GCP. I tried to stay in the free tier but "hidden" networking costs got me at $20/month.

The site was a blog with traffic of 1, load balancer, cloud run and storage bucket.

I shut it down. It was a nice exercise but not worth it to me long term.

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