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This is pretty great news. Reducing bandwidth costs is definitely a good thing. I've always wondered how people run their own (personal use or side project) se
by bpye 8y ago
This is pretty great news. Reducing bandwidth costs is definitely a good thing.
I've always wondered how people run their own (personal use or side project) services on bare metal or VPS providers manage them without spending too much time. I've found that trying to run even a few services and have a reasonable solution for backups, software updates, etc to take more time and effort than it seems is worthwhile, it makes Heroku and App Engine particularly appealing as a lot of the issues are kinda solved with managed cloud providers. I would love to hear how people make this work.
- _eht 8y agoIf you invest some initial time into a few shell scripts your management time is very minimal and your cost savings is monumental. Another investment into a couple python scripts and API access to Linode (vps provider) and you can easily auto scale on demand with the best of them. As a practical example, I run a cluster of auto scaling servers for around $500/month. The same infrastructure and traffic cost me almost $3,500 on AWS.
- Operyl 8y agoI have a KVM hypervisor machine with a bunch of python scripts to make cloud-init images for deployment of my VMs. Best 5 hours of time spent, ever.
- h1d 8y agoWhen you realize AWS/GCE/Azure costs you about $0.1/GB for bandwidth, it scares me it can be DDoSed to the point your bill goes out of the normal proportion so easily. Other places have TBs of bandwidth within their < $50 plans.
- ApolloFortyNine 8y agoIf you do move to Hetzner, you will quickly realize the value of premium bandwidth. Maxing out your Hetzner pipe is quite difficult in my experience. OVH/AWS (my other two experiences) on the other hand maxes out the pipe without issue.