Post #4507046

2026-08-08 20:56 UTC

There seems to be two groups of people: People that use services like AWS and pay hundreds (or more) per month: “Wow, hosting is so expensive now!” People that host a bunch of stuff on a $40/year VPS: “Wow, hosting is so cheap now!” I’ve got several VPSes with 40Gbps (shared) networking, 8 or 16GB RAM, decent amount of space on RAIDed enterprise NVMe SSDs, fast AMD EPYC CPUs, that cost less than $60/year. 20 years ago before VPS hosting became popular, you’d need to pay at least $100/month for a dedicated server with a consumer CPU, single IDE hard drive, tiny amount of RAM, on a 100Mb/s connection. Not to mention being able to host a bunch of stuff at home for cheap with a low-power single-board or mini PC., and Hetzner making dedicated servers very cheap too.

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@Tanoh@lemmy.world 2026-08-09 01:37

AWS and similar are very expensive compared to a simple VPS. However, AWS offer things that is hard to do on a VPS, not impossible of course but just hard. Like automatic scaling, your site suddently gets on the frontpage of slashdot/hn/reddit/etc and get 1000x the normal traffic? Your VPS will probaly choke and render error pages for most of the traffic. On a correctly configured AWS scaling deployment, you won’t even notice it. And not only for your webserver, you can do the same for data And other features like multiregional and easier CDN (also in multiregion) integration. There are of course problems with AWS also, sometimes you don’t want your site to scale uncontrollably. If you get DDoSed without mitigatiln, for example, you could end up with a huge bill for nothing. So, as with almost everything in life. It depends what your goal is and how much you want to spend.

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@kibblebits@quokk.au 2026-08-08 22:25

I use cloudflare for free. You guys pay for hosting?

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