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Wait you’re still paying $5 per day on an idle service? That’s absurd.
by pier25 10mo ago
Wait you’re still paying $5 per day on an idle service?
That’s absurd.
- mcsniff 10mo agoI know, right? I solo a small business (6 figures revenue) off a static site and backend on $1/month VPS. $0 revenue, 0 customers, and thinks $5/day is acceptable. LOL.
- imron 10mo agoI came here to say this. OP, what are you even doing that requires $150/month of spend, especially given things are mostly idle?
- creativesage 10mo agoPhoto culling app. Photographers upload 1000+ images, ML clusters similar shots so clients can pick favorites faster. Needs serious parallel compute (but infrequently). Cloud SQL is the baseline (~$40-50/month, doesn't scale to zero). My fuckup was setting --cpu 4 --memory 16Gi during initial migration and only optimizing instance counts, not resource sizing. Didn't help that GCP has no hard spending cap. Budgets only send alerts (in my case 1 easy to miss alert saying you spent more than $50 this month), they don't stop charges... Looking at my credit card statement there are multiple $1-2k charges. The incentives aren't exactly aligned toward helping you spend less.
- imron 10mo ago> Cloud SQL is the baseline Does GCP not have something equivalent to Aurora Serverless? [0] It's more expensive if you are constantly using the database over the course of a month, but much less expensive if you only have bursty traffic. 0: https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/serverless/ https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/serverless/