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I played with convox a little and a month later discovered I unexpectedly owed AWS a rather large sum of money. For small projects I'm now happy running caprov

I played with convox a little and a month later discovered I unexpectedly owed AWS a rather large sum of money. For small projects I'm now happy running caprover on dedicated hosts where I understand the cost (and it's really quite small). One way porter could interest me would be if it incorporated best practices for me not to get fleeced by the cloud operator.

sungrokshim 6y ago
We've encountered this from our early users and are definitely looking for ways to incorporate transparency of cost. AWS is particularly opaque when it comes to pricing, and I'd love to hear any ideas you have in things that would help you better understand costs. What comes to mind is integrating with something like InfraCost (YC W21)... That said, for small projects we are adding support for cheaper independent cloud providers very soon. We've talked to folks at both Vultr and Linode, which provide significantly cheaper k8s offerings, and are working with them right now!
- mwcampbell 6y ago
  > AWS is particularly opaque when it comes to pricing How so? Doesn't AWS break down the cost of each resource you consume? I suppose it's difficult to predict all of the little costs that will add up though.
- akh 6y ago
  Co-founder of Infracost here, happy to help with integrations if needed. Regarding smaller cloud providers, someone from our community is adding Scaleway, such providers usually have pricing that is an order of magnitude simpler than AWS/GCP/Azure.
  - evoxmusic 6y ago
    Hey greetings from Romaric :)
  - sungrokshim 6y ago
    Yes let's talk!
throw03172019 6y ago
I think Convox estimated their racks were around $140/mo min on AWS