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> The only reason to dramatically overpay for the hosting resources they provide is because you expect them to expertly manage security and stability. This and
by 0xmattf 6mo ago
> The only reason to dramatically overpay for the hosting resources they provide is because you expect them to expertly manage security and stability.
This and because it's so convenient to click some buttons and have your application running. I've stopped being lazy, though. Moved everything from Render to linode. I was paying render $50+/month. Now I'm paying $3-5.
I would never use one of those hosting providers again.
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- nightski 6mo agoLooking at linode, those prices get you an instance with 1Gb of ram and a mediocre CPU. So you are running all of your applications on that?
- 0xmattf 6mo agoPersonal projects/MVPs/small projects? Absolutely. For what I'm running, there's no reason to need anything beyond that. The point is, I used to just throw everything up on a PaaS. Heroku/Render, etc. and pay way more than I needed to, even if I had 0 users, lol.
- adhamsalama 6mo agoFor $3.5, Hetzner gives 2 vCPU, 4GB RAM, 40 GB SSD, and 10 TB of bandwidth.
- skeeter2020 6mo agohow much work should the GP do to migrate if Linode is good enough, to potentially save up to $1.50/month (or spend 50 cents more)?
- eatery1234 6mo agoPretty oversold iirc, but then again, that's the same for Linode
- normie3000 6mo agoDo you mean these are shared instances, and the stated resources are not actually available?
- lelanthran 6mo ago> Looking at linode, those prices get you an instance with 1Gb of ram and a mediocre CPU. So you are running all of your applications on that? I ran a LoB webapp for multiple companies on a similar setup. Turns out 1GB of RAM is insufficient to run even the most trivial Java webapps, like Jenkins, but is more than sufficient for even non-trivial things using Go + PostgreSQL. Your stack may be slow, not the machine.
- Orygin 6mo agoMost of my services run with 1vCPU and 512Mb of ram. You don't need huge specs for most normal applications.
- p_stuart82 6mo agoexactly people paid the premium so somebody else's OAuth screwup wouldn't become their Sunday. and here we are.
- cleaning 6mo agoIf you're only paying $3-5 on Linode then your level of usage would probably be comfortably at $0 on Vercel.
- esseph 6mo agoMakes sense considering the quality of Vercel's security response and customer communication.
- 0xmattf 6mo agoIt could be $0 on Render too, but then there's going to be a 3 minute load time for a landing page to become visible, lol. So if you don't want your server to sleep, you're going to have to pay $20/month. Does Vercel do the same?
- somewhatgoated 6mo agoNo, I run several small websites on Vercel for free for years, always served static pages very quickly
- anurag 6mo agoRender offers free static sites that are served via a CDN and load instantly: https://render.com/docs/static-sites https://render.com/docs/static-sites
- 0xmattf 6mo agoWhen I said landing page, I had contact forms and more in mind, not documentation sites. But that is news to me. Interesting. Although for static sites, I always use Netlify or even GitHub pages.
- 0xmattf 6mo agoStatic pages, sure. But what do you do if you want a contact form or something? Yeah, you can use services like formspree, but then you may end up paying $20/month for that alone. Perhaps I'm just ignorant.