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> If it were running on S3, my personal finance would have been obliterated when it got featured on HN and served 1+ TB of traffic. Maybe I'm reading this wron
by westoncb 6y ago
> If it were running on S3, my personal finance would have been obliterated when it got featured on HN and served 1+ TB of traffic.
Maybe I'm reading this wrong, but it looks like 1 TB of outgoing traffic would be ~$90
https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/ https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/
I've had things hit the HN front page a few times while just hosting on ec2 and never had a noticeable increase in charges. Then again, I wasn't hosting very large files.
- ev1 6y agoIf you do host large-ish files, even a couple MB JPGs, your personal finance wouldn't be happy. I've had some images hit reddit (hotlinked) and exceeded 10-15TB per image, and that cost under $10 at other (non-AWS/Azure/*) places.
- todotask 6y agoI have a similar experience and using UpCloud VPS as been able to keep my cost down (less than $5/m or a cup of coffee)