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Where can you get a dedicated for 40?
Check https://www.lowendstock.com Also Rasmus (of PHP) wrote a series of posts https://toys.lerdorf.com/low-cost-vps-testing a while ago comparing VPS providers in the $10/mo range. It was discussed on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21725853
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> the only reason they might is good PR/karma from yc posting not really, they've been known to do it before, I personally got a much smaller charge (~$12) waived by just asking nicely.
That's directly akin to getting the good stuff until you're hooked... Throw away the account, rent a bare metal server or even a self hosted vm if that's too expensive and you have far more freedom to learn things and do it properly.
And I do have a server (or well two, lol)
For a three person startup… I find Lambdas/Serverless/Cloudflare workers fantastic if you are clever with how you architect things, they can really bring the costs down to trivial amounts. However you need to be defensive I.e. reserved concurrency etc and clever normally means lots of extra steps/hoops to work around restrictions or use things ingeniously. It’s fun if you like that, if we are honest with ourselves it’s hard to beat the simplicity of a VPS and a full stack framework like Rails or whatever alternative in your language of preference when just starting out, then break specific functionality out in to other architectures as required.
I want to offer two counterpoints to common sentiments here regarding AWS billing. 1. Don't be afraid of playing around with AWS (and even spending some money). AWS is really good at refunding you if you accidentally rack up a couple grand in surprise bills. Also even if you legitimately spin up big servers to try a kubernetes cluster for a couple of days, that $20 you spent is almost certainly great bang-for-buck fo…
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I hardly stored any PII. Also, this was a high profile site that you know: if it was hacked, they would probably try to deny access and extort: it would make a lot of monetary sense. We would also have lost our merchant accounts very quickly (although CC numbers were not stored, only MD5s, but i suppose they could have been captured from the application's memory after TLS decryption but before MD5 hashing, although t…
MD5(CC#) is trivially reversed, so I hope that’s not what you were doing.
Here is a follow-up story about this and how I decided to change my cloud stack to avoid this in the future: https://medium.com/@ruslanfg/aws-refunded-after-i-ddosed-mys...
Based on comments here, I decided to go with AWS ECS in the future.
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Storage, compute and networking mostly. I'm confused by your question - are you suggesting that early stage startups couldn't possible generate a workload to warrant that cost? Maybe if your idea of a startup business is limited to running a basic CRUD app. But other data-intensive projects have engineering needs that can easily reach that scale, especially in the early days when you're trying to bootstrap your data…
Those cases are rare as hell, $150k should be enough for nearly anyone. You are making bad engineering decisions if you go through that in under a year.
The storage bill alone exceeded that at four startups I've worked with. When your job is to manage X PB of data with Y TB arriving daily, you're fairly constrained on the cost floor of your operations.
> You are making bad engineering decisions if you go through that in under a year.
Fine. You lack the imagination to conceive of a use case, or you lack the knowledge and skills to get the job doing it. Either way, this comment is rude and ignorant of the diversity of software challenges that exists in the real world.