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Still more reliable and orders of magnitude more powerful than any free service. You can also buy two.

• jedberg 7y ago
  > Still more reliable and orders of magnitude more powerful than any free service. I don't think so. AWS Lambda has a generous free tier and runs on infrastructure that has constant monitoring by professionals, spread across thousands of machines in multiple datacenters all over the world, with an SLA. Your one (or two) servers that share a single consumer internet connection (with no SLA) will never be more reliable. Yes, you can get more powerful, but again, that's a business decision you have to make. Do you want power or reliability? If uptime is important to your business, then running it at home off of consumer internet is not a good idea.
  • tjoff 7y ago
    Either way, relying on free services you typically need a backup plan anyway. And I hardly imagine tailoring everything for amazon can be considered cheap nor sensible.
    • paulcarroty 7y ago
      > you typically need a backup plan anyway. You need a backup plan for paid services too.
  • dillonmckay 7y ago
    So, what happens when the SLA is violated in the free-tier?
• paulcarroty 7y ago
  It works until your internet connection and electricity are up. They will go down in any unexpected moment.