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The Free Stack – Running Your Application for Free on AWS

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Re: The Free Stack – Running Your Application for Free on AWS

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Post by derefr »

mr_toad wrote: post #73
evv wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Recently I've been fascinated at gap between server providers these days. It seems each provider is either: - Enterprise public cloud, AWS/GCP/Azure, expensive but scalable and enterprise friendly - Developer public cloud, Linode/DO, cheap and easy to use Although I say that AWS/GCP/etc are expensive, they obviously have negotiable prices for large customers. I doubt the smaller providers do that. But it makes me won…

The cheapest AWS EC2 reserved instance is about the same $/month as the cheapest DO instance, both can be used for a small website. You’ll pay more for on-demand pricing.

The cheapest DO instance lets you pin the CPU to 100% for your whole usage cycle. The cheapest EC2 reserved instance will throttle you if you attempt to do so. So if your "small website" is actually a web app of any complexity, the DO instance is almost always a better choice.

(If, on the other hand, the "small website" is just a website, why not just put it in an S3 bucket and put Cloudflare in front? Even cheaper!)

Re: The Free Stack – Running Your Application for Free on AWS

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

Roritharr wrote: post #62
copperx wrote: post #57

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All of this work and complete dependency on third party services is worth it? Isn't much easier to create a lightweight app in say, Go and SQLite, and pay a so-low-to-be-insignificant monthly fee?

I wonder what amount of money would be sufficient to create the digital equivalent of a foundation to ensure the uptime of a website/project. It would be kinda cool to put away a few grand to ensure something stays up "forever".

Would just having a pre-paid credit card work? I guess not, also given how every once in a while you may need to accept new terms and conditions.

Re: The Free Stack – Running Your Application for Free on AWS

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Post by MaxBarraclough »

NightlyDev wrote: post #52

Bad title. It's not free, and after 12 months it's even very expensive compared to alternatives, considering what one gets for the price. A couple of cheap VPSs would be cheeper and have way more headroom for the price.

Yup. It's not free even for the first 12 months, even assuming upper bounds on load.

$6.35 != $0. (For any numerical value of $ not equal to zero.)

Re: The Free Stack – Running Your Application for Free on AWS

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Post by TotempaaltJ »

Willamin wrote: post #30

There are ways to actually run your application for free using the big players' free services. One route I've looked at for e-commerce is storing product data on Stripe, hosting product pages with Netlify, pulling product data during static site build, triggering a build when Stripe data gets updated, and using Netlify's wrapper around AWS Lambda for free FaaS (AWS Lambda can be free forever, but you also need AWS AP…

Netlify free tier is magical. It's allowed me to stop spending on hosting altogether. My blog, personal website, and all other sites I own are static, so I don't have to pay for my droplet anymore.

Re: The Free Stack – Running Your Application for Free on AWS

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Post by fabatka »

zoidb wrote: post #23

There are a lot of naysaying in the comments but I think it's a nice write-up and if you are interested in doing something like this I can say for sure it is possible based on my own experience. One of my side projects, https://cmdchallenge.com is setup almost identical. Cloudfront / api gateway / dynamodb and is covered a bit in this blog post https://about.cmdchallenge.com/building-cmdchallenge.html . My last month…

Hi! I really like your project. Perhaps others have suggested it already, but it would be nice to read the man pages directly from the app (currently it gives man: command not found error for me).

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Post by unvs »

redcat255 wrote: post #29
lazharichir wrote: post #11

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I am on GCP but I usually request/allocate more and once in production for a few weeks, I can turn some things down and others up. That is if your product/setup is new and you aren't sure how everything will interact once live (in terms of perf). Otherwise, for Lambda there is on Github a repo with a script that will publish your code in every configuration possible, run stress tests, and only keep the most optimum (…

Hi, could you share the link of said repo?

I searched around and closest I found was https://github.com/Nordstrom/serverless-artillery

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Post by puzzlingcaptcha »

zoidb wrote: post #23

There are a lot of naysaying in the comments but I think it's a nice write-up and if you are interested in doing something like this I can say for sure it is possible based on my own experience. One of my side projects, https://cmdchallenge.com is setup almost identical. Cloudfront / api gateway / dynamodb and is covered a bit in this blog post https://about.cmdchallenge.com/building-cmdchallenge.html . My last month…

I don't want it to sound as advertising, but I pay €3.08 for a VPS (KVM with exposed AES-NI) at hetzner. You can get a lot of bang for the buck these days.

Re: The Free Stack – Running Your Application for Free on AWS

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Post by [deleted] »

zoidb wrote: post #23

There are a lot of naysaying in the comments but I think it's a nice write-up and if you are interested in doing something like this I can say for sure it is possible based on my own experience. One of my side projects, https://cmdchallenge.com is setup almost identical. Cloudfront / api gateway / dynamodb and is covered a bit in this blog post https://about.cmdchallenge.com/building-cmdchallenge.html . My last month…

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Re: The Free Stack – Running Your Application for Free on AWS

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Post by SpecialistEMT »

ibudiallo wrote: post #36

This is a nice write up. My only concern is that these days we think that the alternative to free is $40 to hundreds of dollars a months for something decent. In the days of shared hosting, you could drop $3 to $5 to host your small website and expect your website to decently perform. But with your DO/Linode, you can expect excellent performance for the same price. Only last month my two $5 droplets handled 5 million…

Im running a $5(+$2 for backups) 1GB linode and getting around 50k views a month on a properly configured wordpress with caching and 30 plugins with nginx on Centos 7. Sometimes 25-50 ppl at the same time. Site is pretty fast(faster than most- maybe because lack of a dozen of trackers). With 2GB ram and 1 more core it would be super fast. Im using Centmin mod stackscript for managing nginx.

Re: The Free Stack – Running Your Application for Free on AWS

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Post by derefr »

zoidb wrote: post #23

There are a lot of naysaying in the comments but I think it's a nice write-up and if you are interested in doing something like this I can say for sure it is possible based on my own experience. One of my side projects, https://cmdchallenge.com is setup almost identical. Cloudfront / api gateway / dynamodb and is covered a bit in this blog post https://about.cmdchallenge.com/building-cmdchallenge.html . My last month…

> api gateway / dynamodb

It's funny—this is essentially what Google App Engine's standard environment gives you (equivalents to), but nobody has ever been very excited about using it.

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