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I was deciding between cloud hosts yesterday for a tiny project and got reminded how frustrating it is to predict costs on aws. Even to get a monthly ec2 price

I was deciding between cloud hosts yesterday for a tiny project and got reminded how frustrating it is to predict costs on aws. Even to get a monthly ec2 price you need a calculator out, not including other costs. Their billing reports are also very unclear to me. I’m planning on digital ocean because of this: their costs are straightforward and their interface is simple. Edit: can anyone recommend an easy way to create different-provider backups of a DO server?

scarface74 7y ago
Look at AWS Lightsail. It’s a simple VPS provider without all of the complexity of AWS.
freehunter 7y ago
I use DigitalOcean because they're cheap and their costs are predictable over AWS. I don't do full server backups since I can just 'git pull' and for the most part have my server re-populated, but I do full backups of my Postgres database every night. I use pg_backup and the AWS CLI tools to push the backup to S3. I also keep a week of backups stored locally on the server in case I blow up the database but not the server, I can restore without having to bring it back from S3 (or in case S3 fails).