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Author here. I never needed a VPS for the bandwidth. But I did need it for dynamic www hosting (mainly powered by Gunicorn + PostgreSQL). SaaS / PaaS alternativ
by jaza 5y ago
Author here. I never needed a VPS for the bandwidth. But I did need it for dynamic www hosting (mainly powered by Gunicorn + PostgreSQL). SaaS / PaaS alternatives (e.g. Heroku - which I've used occasionally), or IaaS alternatives (e.g. in Amazon land, RDS / ECS / S3), in that space, are generally more expensive.
Now that my sites are "static" (the inverted commas are because there's still actually dynamic functionality, powered by serverless functions), I can host them on a number of different SaaS / PaaS providers, that have fairly generous free plans.
- encryptluks2 5y agoAnd that is understandable. I have my site hosted on GitLab Pages for free and love that it is fast and feels dynamic even though it is static. However, I also have some other stuff that takes up quite a bit of storage that would only work on a VPS or dedicated server, but in pricing it out with cloud providers it was like 100x the cost.