How we built Hamiltix.net for less than $1 a month on AWS

Post by yakshaving_jgt » Fri, Mar 02, 2018, 2:32 PM UTC

icebraining wrote: post #42

yakshaving_jgt wrote: post #40

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Scaleway are horridly unreliable. I run a SaaS business, and hosted first with DigitalOcean which amounted to roughly one outage per month. I then tried hosting with Scaleway for a few months to cut costs. On Scaleway, I averaged 53 outages every month. Average response times were slower. Longer outages meant I had to manually hard-restart the server, which corrupted all the database indexes. Scaleway also has a huge…

One outage per month in DO? Curious, we had a dozen machines running there and never experienced that. Unless they were very short-lived (we used Uptime Robot's free plan, which has a 5m interval). Or maybe it's the DC? We used AMS2.

Post by mlvljr » Fri, Mar 02, 2018, 2:36 PM UTC

throwaway1909 wrote: post #44

veb wrote: post #39

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Can also use a negative price! I wonder what would happen if you went ahead with that. Presumably the payment gateway wouldn't pay me $5. Seems a strange choice to be having those parameters in a GET.

Why stop at $5? Try setting quantity or price to -9e999999999. How will you spend your $∞ dollars?

Post by alokdhari » Fri, Mar 02, 2018, 3:13 PM UTC

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Post by badsectorlabs » Fri, Mar 02, 2018, 4:22 PM UTC

veb wrote: post #39

nodomain wrote: post #28

I can modify the price in the checkout by changing the URL parameter. Really?

Can also use a negative price! I wonder what would happen if you went ahead with that. Presumably the payment gateway wouldn't pay me $5. Seems a strange choice to be having those parameters in a GET.