3 ms·

Is google so cheap? I am a small fish in the big sea but I use this for my personal projects: https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/ https://www.nearlyfreespeech.n

• neurostimulant 3y ago
  GCP and AWS are cheap for small and low traffics applications. But once your usage passes a certain point, you'll quickly find out they're more expensive than other vendors. The problem is, once you reached that point, you're probably already locked yourself in by using their specific offerings not found anywhere else. Limiting yourself to plain vps/containers/k8s might help preventing lock in.
  • steveBK123 3y ago
    And yet many large enterprises with existing data centers have made forays into cloud only to discover how stunningly expensive it is once the free credits run out.
    • dartos 3y ago
      It’s a classic walled garden strategy
  • throwaway2990 3y ago
    If you limit yourself you will end up paying a ton.
• dewey 3y ago
  As always it depends what you need. If you think you might need a database that's not MySQL and maybe a bucket to host your images and static assets then nearlyfreespeech is already not a good match any more if you prefer to have everything in one place. For small projects or Wordpress installations you can of course find a lot of very cheap or even free options as it's such a commodity by now.