Your side projects don't need scale :D :D
Deploy your side-projects at scale for basically nothing – Google Cloud Run
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Re: Deploy your side-projects at scale for basically nothing – Google Cloud Run
#292Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have gone serverless for a Vue frontend app I deliver with Cloudflare Workers Sites and with a DigitalOcean S3 Space serving all images. However I'm still very reluctant to use Google Cloud Computing or any similar Azure/AWS solutions for its backend because it just seems pretty expensive to me. I can get a vServer with 48 Gb RAM, 10 vCPUs and a 800 SSD with a 1000 Mbit/s connection and unlimited traffic for 20€ a…
Where can you find a server like that for €20/month?
Other comments have mentioned Hetzner which is good as well but for my calculations I looked at Strato vServers: https://www.strato.de/server/linux-vserver/ (in German)
Re: Deploy your side-projects at scale for basically nothing – Google Cloud Run
#293Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have gone serverless for a Vue frontend app I deliver with Cloudflare Workers Sites and with a DigitalOcean S3 Space serving all images. However I'm still very reluctant to use Google Cloud Computing or any similar Azure/AWS solutions for its backend because it just seems pretty expensive to me. I can get a vServer with 48 Gb RAM, 10 vCPUs and a 800 SSD with a 1000 Mbit/s connection and unlimited traffic for 20€ a…
> I can get a vServer with 48 Gb RAM, 10 vCPUs and a 800 SSD with a 1000 Mbit/s connection and unlimited traffic for 20€ a month and run my MariaDB and Redis database on the same machine as my other containers. Where are you getting all that at that price?!
Strato.de (German) has some great plans. Just install docker one their linux vserver and you’re good to go.
https://www.strato.de/server/linux-vserver/
Re: Deploy your side-projects at scale for basically nothing – Google Cloud Run
#294Can't you see this article is a paid advertisement for Google Cloud? Just like those 1 hour long videos on youtube - where they show how pilots fly an airplane of a specific company and how well is al organized or a 1 hour long video of a german car factory. Just reading this line makes you suspicious: "I have built hundreds of side projects over the years " really? Hundreds? And then below: "I am yet to have a side…
Bummer to see comments like this so high up the page after so many hours.
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Also: every blog starts somewhere. Plenty of stuff in the author's GH and linkedin, both linked from TFA.
Re: Deploy your side-projects at scale for basically nothing – Google Cloud Run
#295I have used it for work-related reasons and indeed the service is quite nice. But I don't use Google Cloud Run for personal projects for two reasons: - No way of limiting the expenses AFAIK. I don't want the possibility of having a huge bill on my name that I cannot pay. This unfortunately applies to other clouds. - The risk of being locked out. For many, many reasons (including the above), you can get locked out of…
> - No way of limiting the expenses AFAIK. I don't want the possibility of having a huge bill on my name that I cannot pay. This unfortunately applies to other clouds.
It's surprising that no major cloud provide prepaid option, which would be handy for such.
Re: Deploy your side-projects at scale for basically nothing – Google Cloud Run
#296I have used it for work-related reasons and indeed the service is quite nice. But I don't use Google Cloud Run for personal projects for two reasons: - No way of limiting the expenses AFAIK. I don't want the possibility of having a huge bill on my name that I cannot pay. This unfortunately applies to other clouds. - The risk of being locked out. For many, many reasons (including the above), you can get locked out of…
If I were to run any public-facing protect on Google Cloud, I definitely would use a separate account, created just for that. You never knows what might happen to that account. I thought everybody does this.
I wonder how hard would it be to run a script that checks your balance e.g. every 15 minutes, and shuts down public access to your services when a certain threshold is triggered. I wonder if a ready-made service for that exists in cloud providers' offerings.
Re: Deploy your side-projects at scale for basically nothing – Google Cloud Run
#297I have used it for work-related reasons and indeed the service is quite nice. But I don't use Google Cloud Run for personal projects for two reasons: - No way of limiting the expenses AFAIK. I don't want the possibility of having a huge bill on my name that I cannot pay. This unfortunately applies to other clouds. - The risk of being locked out. For many, many reasons (including the above), you can get locked out of…
Why not make a burner gmail instead of migrating out of Google
Re: Deploy your side-projects at scale for basically nothing – Google Cloud Run
#298Earlier quoted context omitted.
Cloud hosting is great for businesses, that's why I believe that every web developer should experiment with those services. It's not great for personal use for the reasons you've stated - the risk of your service going down due to it being viral is much easier to bear than the risk of having to pay outrageous amounts of money for those services in that event. If your hobby project goes down for a while nobody will re…
Years ago I ran a side project that went viral. It grew to 60k visitors a day and my monthly cloud expenses were around $1,500. I cannot fathom a scenario where you get a surprise $100k bill from a viral hit. Anytime my project went down due to scaling, it was painful. You don’t get many chances at going viral.
What was that cost for? 60k visitors is less than 1 req/sec, something a terribly small server should be able to handle with relative ease. We’re there a lot of static assets not served by a CDN or cache?
Re: Deploy your side-projects at scale for basically nothing – Google Cloud Run
#299Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not sure if you can reasonably scale to 0, but I believe you can attach Autoscaling Groups to Fargate.
Most likely it would be based on CPU/Memory and not requests
Most definitely, but you can auto scale on custom metrics with a bit of glue. Even a very small node app has a start time in the 10-30 sec range. Every auto scaling system, even cloud run, can struggle to keep up with extremely bursty traffic. If you want no timeouts, you have to overprovision.
Re: Deploy your side-projects at scale for basically nothing – Google Cloud Run
#300I have used it for work-related reasons and indeed the service is quite nice. But I don't use Google Cloud Run for personal projects for two reasons: - No way of limiting the expenses AFAIK. I don't want the possibility of having a huge bill on my name that I cannot pay. This unfortunately applies to other clouds. - The risk of being locked out. For many, many reasons (including the above), you can get locked out of…
These are really non issues. You can create a new Google account and setup a limit for the number of instances and alerts.
Also, show us how you would rack up a $100k bill for a side project that receives a traffic spike. It's simply not realistic.