I don't understand why any solo dev would use aws. Its awfully priced and 99% of people can just use a vps and that should be enough. By the time you blow up and need cloud scale you can afford it.
Google Cloud Run cost me $4,676 in 6 weeks with zero traff
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#23I understand the "everybody does it that way" aspect of the cloud, but the old way of subscribing to a dynamic DNS and hosting locally still works just fine and you have full control of things.
Later, once you have more traffic and/or paying customers, it would be worth looking into cloud hosting. And even then, you probably don't need as much horsepower as they're trying to sell.
Re: Google Cloud Run cost me $4,676 in 6 weeks with zero traff
#24Wait you’re still paying $5 per day on an idle service? That’s absurd.
I know, right? I solo a small business (6 figures revenue) off a static site and backend on $1/month VPS.
$0 revenue, 0 customers, and thinks $5/day is acceptable. LOL.
Re: Google Cloud Run cost me $4,676 in 6 weeks with zero traff
#25> I’d appreciate hearing what others would do differently
Very naive answer: before doing anything I would start by playing around in the GCP pricing calculator [1] to figure out how much it was going to cost during development and in production. Did you use the calculator tool? If so, were its estimates accurate?
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#28your alerts seemed to have worked if you got one alert right? I used to work with situation alerts, and the "one alert" thing is a trap, you miss one and you're done. I coded alert recaps, alert reminders, custom scheduling etc etc, if you have opportunity for getting alerts, don't write them off because you got just a single alert, stop counting on perfectly response to a single alert and lean into multiple alerts wherever possible. take care of the human tasked with responding to alertable situations, we're imperfect error prone blobs of protoplasm lol
Re: Google Cloud Run cost me $4,676 in 6 weeks with zero traff
#29> I fed my setup, budget, and constraints as context into Gemini
OP, you fucked around and found out.
Re: Google Cloud Run cost me $4,676 in 6 weeks with zero traff
#30I'd say rent a VPS or Dedicated server, you can get some serious hardware on a dedi box for $100-200 a month. And there's no 'overages' just because something uses more CPU or RAM.
Cloud stuff is a complete waste of money unless you really specifically need the scaling it offers and have wads of cash.