Post Ax50hMgnQXoHAZmthA by LovesTha@floss.social
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(DIR) Post #Ax4tCRXwcQQ1ZsxJU8 by lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-08-12T01:14:01Z
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I continue to be amazed that anyone uses Amazon AWS, or Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Services. Only someone who's very happy to completely lock their business into a 3rd party proprietary stack they don't control, and loves paying 20x (2000%!) more than reasonable commodity infrastructure rates would do so. I'm amazed that these businesses are even viable. Just goes to show how much flab most corporations have. They're ripe for disruption and displacement.
(DIR) Post #Ax4ukaTo0m1v5Frg80 by LovesTha@floss.social
2025-08-12T01:31:19Z
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@lightweight I'm not shocked when their needs are much less than a single server, or as a way to cope with short spikes in demand.But as the way to deal with significant base load? Insanity.
(DIR) Post #Ax4vNyKhGBjmMANsxs by lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-08-12T01:38:29Z
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@LovesTha Even for a single server or overflow - why would you pick it? We replaced $300/m servers with functionally equivalent $15/m servers, and got a much nicer interface to manage them to boot.
(DIR) Post #Ax50hMgnQXoHAZmthA by LovesTha@floss.social
2025-08-12T02:37:59Z
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@lightweight No, when you need much less than a single server, you are only going to run the AWS/et al for minutes/hours a month.No one actually does it that way, but that is when it would make sense.
(DIR) Post #Ax5PzVyW8gNY2GpO1w by njoseph@social.masto.host
2025-08-12T07:21:21Z
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@lightweight I worked as a tech lead on several corporate projects. The microservices written by teams of around 10 people cost like 3k-4k USD pm, for each environment - dev, staging and prod (highest).What makes it worth the cost are the high reliability managed services like (AWS examples only ->) S3, DynamoDB, SNS, SQS, Lambda, Step Functions and a lot of other things that your typical VPS provider doesn't have. Raw compute (EC2) is ~2.5x of other providers, but that's not the USP.
(DIR) Post #Ax5hhs0XHYdKKZVYY4 by Downes@mastodon.social
2025-08-12T10:39:45Z
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@lightweight what do you do instead?
(DIR) Post #Ax5pCGYPHdQgpIn9fs by lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-08-12T12:03:38Z
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@Downes I use Hetzner.com for much of my hosting. Their rates are ~ 5-10% of what the bigtech options charge. And they're a German-owned (not US) company, which is a bonus.
(DIR) Post #Ax5sVfS1F0EZPKkNHM by judicandus@akuanduba.masto.host
2025-08-12T12:40:39Z
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@lightweight @Downes Hetzner is a great service! I've been using them for over a year as a complement to my home server and it's been 100% stable. Support is also fast and efficient.
(DIR) Post #Ax5tQRUXoVmCcV05ui by re@fuzzies.wtf
2025-08-12T12:51:08Z
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@lightweight @Downes please do not the hetznerthey nearly took down a trans fedi instance because someone posted an image of anime girls kissing and then tried to claim the entire instance in conception wasn't allowed which us uhh interestinghence the coining of the term "hetzenered"........ also their ToS bans "material that could seriously endanger the morals of children or young people" which anyone in the lgbtq+ community will tell you is a hell of a red flag