Tell HN: I DDoSed myself using CloudFront and Lambda Edge and got a $4.5k bill

Post by ecshafer » Tue, Jun 28, 2022, 6:14 PM UTC

Keyframe wrote: post #75

sirwitti wrote: post #74

I'm very much on the boring technology side of things with respect to hosting. 40€ / month gets you a very powerful dedicated server that can easily handle millions of requests per day and performs incredibly well and can be managed easily. If you also use containers you even get quite a bit of flexibility and agility. To be honest I don't really understand the sentiment that developers can get away with not knowing…

Yeah, but how will you scale up your multi-dozen-users-at-the-same-time app easily then?

Post by wooque » Tue, Jun 28, 2022, 6:17 PM UTC

jpalomaki wrote: post #148

jsiepkes wrote: post #126

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I'd rather worry about (and fix) those technical problems then having to deal with possible billing-pocalyse.

Take for example OS and app upgrades. Quite often you have few requirements, for example 1)all updates should be first tested in test env 2)updates need to be installed in timely manner 3)critical updates need to be installed quickly (30 days is too slow) When you start thinking these, they are not so easy. (1) means you can’t just run “apt upgrade” on every server - you need to manage the updates to make sure they g…

Post by horsawlarway » Tue, Jun 28, 2022, 6:18 PM UTC

Mo3 wrote: post #183

horsawlarway wrote: post #181

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> With all due respect and no offense intended, your perspective sounds a lot like "I've never attempted to scale so I can't understand the problems" With all due respect, I don't think you've ever actually put together a local cluster. A simple 4 machine k8s cluster sitting literally on dirt in my basement can scale out to the equivalent of thousands of dollars of AWS spend a month. I broke even on the initial purch…

> With all due respect, I don't think you've ever actually put together a local cluster. I have, and still do. It's neither redundant nor highly available. The power source isn't, the internet connection isn't and it's also located in my basement and not multiple regions. > The problems are almost never scaling the web servers. The problem is scaling the infrastructure that those servers need to be useful. There you…

Post by henearkr » Tue, Jun 28, 2022, 6:19 PM UTC

upupandup wrote: post #17

reminds me when I set up an S3 triggered lambda function that also wrote into the same directory. What ensued was millions of files and folders generated recursively. Fortunately, AWS was kind enough to reverse the billing. Had this been Google Cloud, I would've gotten the cold shoulder and a low key threat that if I reverse the transaction I would lose access to my other paid Google products outside GCP :/

Post by cft » Tue, Jun 28, 2022, 6:21 PM UTC

Fnoord wrote: post #187

cft wrote: post #137

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I ran a website with 37 million users and 3.6Gbps peak bandwidth (JavaScript+thumbnails, no video) from my own two racks of Linux servers thay i have not systematically updated for years. The OSes were beyond the lts support winows. I manually compiled my own updates, but very rarely and only those that i deemed critical. Granted, the site stack was completely custom so the standard automated hacks didn't work. In 15…

With unattended-upgrades you might get away with such behavior. Also, spme webservers have a great track record. Then its the question if your other services are secure, and your JS/CSS.