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Beauty of cloud :) This could be easily served by a $100/month DO droplet with 0 worries about $.
by qaq 2y ago
Beauty of cloud :) This could be easily served by a $100/month DO droplet with 0 worries about $.
- paxys 2y agoDoes DO have free bandwidth? If not how exactly does that solve the problem?
- Alifatisk 2y agoI don't think they have unmetered bandwidth?
- jsheard 2y agoThey don't, although their overage rates are pretty reasonable compared to the big clouds at 1 cent per gig. It's hard to beat Hetzners 0.1 cents per gig, though. I'd rather pay pennies for bandwidth than rely on "unmetered" bandwidth which tends to suddenly stop being unmetered if you use it too much.
- atrus 2y agoNot on DO. ~$100 a month droplet gets you about 5TB of transfer out. They pulled 15TB in 7 hours. That's ~1,440,000 (16330) on overage or about $15k extra.
- daemonologist 2y agoDoesn't DO charge $0.01/GB for egress overage? That's $150, not $15k. (Although Hetzner or something would've been even less.)
- atrus 2y agoThe formatting ate my math it's 1,440,000TB of transfer per month. (16 x 3 x 30 ). That's $14.4k
- daemonologist 2y agoAh thanks I see - if the attack/misuse had kept up for the entire month.
- sroussey 2y agoI used to have my own half server rack and unlimited bandwidth for $500/mo. My own machines, of course.
- qaq 2y agoDidn't pay attention to transfer figure lets switch DO to CCX43 on Hetzner for $50 more
- 0xbadcafebee 2y agoI think you miss the point of the cloud. It's not supposed to be cheaper. If you want cheap, yeah, run on Hetzner. If you want to deploy a WAF with complex rules to route specific traffic to either a multi-region ALB or a bucket with a WAF built in, and do it in 10 minutes, you use the cloud.
- qaq 2y agoI really don't :) I work on this day in and day out. It just that 90% of the projects don't need any of the above.
- 0xbadcafebee 2y agoWhy do you care whether it "needs" to be done a certain way? You could use Hetzner, or you could use some giant cloud infra. Both get the job done. Why do you care which is used? You probably care because you don't like waste. But another person might not care so much about waste, and cares more about other things. Like the time it takes to get something done, or the technical ability required, or the ability to find someone else to maintain something, or its flexibility in being changed. Or maybe just the fun of building something with cool toys. You originally commented with cost being the factor. But if the person building this doesn't mind an additional cost, then they don't need to build it on DO or Hetzner. That said, if they do built it on the cloud, they do need to keep in mind the cost... just like if they built it on DO or Hetzner, they would need to keep in mind how to rebuild the instance when it goes down, how to maintain the instance's OS for security patches, etc. Both require additional considerations besides the one thing. Your choices just move around the necessary complexity.
- qaq 2y agoI generally care about unneeded complexity mainly because often times when you switch projects you inherent a ton of it. Also many projects don't see the light of day because people overcomplicated the infra too much.
- rsstack 2y agoDO _is_ cloud. Using their droplets compared to someone more sophisticated on GCP is an engineering choice, but both are cloud and both have upsides and downsides, and one needs to understand their needs to make the correct decision both among the different providers and within a provider on the right setup.
- account42 2y agoThe billing model for VPSs and real big cloud(TM) providers is very different. This is espeically true for bandwith.
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- ponytech 2y agoI rent a bare metal server for $50/month with unlimited bandwith...
- kawera 2y agoWhere?
- ksnsnsj 2y agoThere is no such thing as unlimited bandwidth. What I'm aware of are services which do not charge extra for egress but severely limit your egress bandwidth (like 10 Gbit peak, 100 Mbit avg) And limiting egress bandwidth is better is better done in the service per client than by the hoster for your system
- jeffhuys 2y agohttps://getdeploying.com/reference/data-egress https://getdeploying.com/reference/data-egress Check this out. You _almost_ use the most expensive service. I think you should expand your awareness. Hetzner for instance doesn't mention anywhere that they throttle your 10gbit uplink, but they limit to 20TB/month, with ~1EUR for every TB over. Seems like you wouldn't even have noticed what you described in your article.
- dsfasfd 2y ago
- lionkor 2y agoHetzner rootservers have no in- or outgoing data limit either