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I rarely use AWS for smaller projects, and prefer to either use Digital Ocean or bare metal from a local data center (well local when I lived in NY). After a s

I rarely use AWS for smaller projects, and prefer to either use Digital Ocean or bare metal from a local data center (well local when I lived in NY). After a surprise bill like this, I would re-evaluate what serverless is actually giving me.

hericium 4y ago
Cloud vs. bare metal costs should always be thoroughly calculated. Fragment from an article from current "FreeBSD Journal"[1] > We compared the three-year total cost of ownership of a VPS, such as a DigitalOcean Droplet, against two equivalent leased or purchased bare metal servers. We estimated that the leased option costs about half as much compared to equal resources in the cloud, and owning the servers would cost less than a quarter of the pure cloud options. [1] https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-work/journal/ https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-work/journal/ [1] https://freebsdfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Journal-MayJune-2022.pdf https://freebsdfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Jou...
ugjka 4y ago
I'm only using AWS for my domain (too lazy to move) and even then I use an external dns manager because aws charges something like 50 cents per a dns record per month. Everything on aws is a clusterfuck designed to suck money out of enterprise businesses
nickstinemates 4y ago
DigitalOcean is amazingly simple and I have been a big fan since they launched.