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Heroku is great but I find it too expensive for hobby projects. I recently converted a small hobby project on a $5/mo VPS to lambda and api gateway and it now c
by iends 6y ago
Heroku is great but I find it too expensive for hobby projects. I recently converted a small hobby project on a $5/mo VPS to lambda and api gateway and it now costs about $1/mo unless it gets more traffic.
Yes, I can afford to pay a lot more, but I don’t want to and I’m willing to invest more time into something to save money if the process is repeatable.
Lately this has been writing cloud formation that can easily be copied between projects. I wish it was easier though.
- murphm8 6y agoI find CDK[1] way easier to deal with than CloudFormation yaml or json. Try it out! [1] https://aws.amazon.com/cdk/ https://aws.amazon.com/cdk/