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The other day one of the commenters under a post wanted to spend $20 per month to host a static website to handle HN traffic, I just LOL’d. I tried to be good a
by anaganisk 5y ago
The other day one of the commenters under a post wanted to spend $20 per month to host a static website to handle HN traffic, I just LOL’d. I tried to be good and explain why it was so unnecessary but nah they would rather bring a canon to a water gun fight.
- anderspitman 5y agoYeah a static webserver on a low end VPS is more than sufficient for front page traffic.
- sofixa 5y agoOr a fully static host, like Netlify, Firebase Hosting, CloudFlare Pages, etc. which have extremely generous free tiers. I got twice to top ~15 of the HN front page, including once briefly at #1, within a month ( the billing period) and got to only ~90% of my bandwidth allowance of the Firebase Hosting free tier ( which isn't the most generous one). Not only is it cheaper, it's also with less hassle ( there's nothing to manage, you just send static HTML / code to build to static HTML).
- anderspitman 5y agoWhat would have happened if you hit 100%? DigitalOcean gives you 1TB for $5/mo.
- sofixa 5y agoI would have had to pay per GB out consumed at $0.15/GB.