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Yes and no. The classic adage of "what if" tends to fly into these conversations prematurely. Let's face facts. Most personal sites won't see a giant boost in
by haggy 6y ago
Yes and no. The classic adage of "what if" tends to fly into these conversations prematurely.
Let's face facts. Most personal sites won't see a giant boost in traffic unexpectedly. Which means hosting and paying a cloud provider is completely unnecessary.
If you happen to become popular enough (the 1%) THEN you start to consider some scaling patterns.
- onli 6y agoThere have been enough articles about people getting surprise AWS bills going into the thousands of dollars. Even as someone doing business with some of my sites that's a risk I'm not willing to take. It's definitely not an option for someone wanting to minimize costs to an extreme by not spending money on a hoster at all. The simple step of having to provide a credit card for AWS without being able to set a limit is not an acceptable risk.