I have to agree with OrlandoCo, not because I want to hurt your feelings, but because they have very valid point.
I was very excited to try and get into the world of AWS/Azure and get in on the buzz on functions and next-gen cloud design choices. In the end, I was horrified at the price of bandwidth. Storage is cheap, but it's expensive to get it out of their datacentres.
Being a hobbyist programmer and filmographer, I need a plcae to host my films. They're 1-3 GB each. I calculated that every time some downloads this film from a cloud provider, it will cost me 10-30 cents.
Now, put this into perspective with a VPS company such as Hetzner who give you a free 20TB of traffic a month, with a surcharge of 1 euro per TB, while giving you a production ready server, SDDs and all for two euros a month.
No brainer. I would rather set up a Linux VPS, Postgres database, Node.js installation, nginx than to create a conceptually sound API that costs me high heaven. From what I've heard, many companies end up returning back to in-house hosting after seeing the bill, but it's a very controversial topic.
I feel that cloud services are a bit like React, striving for design perfection, but impractical in the end (animation libraries have to hack past React to get any decent performance).
This is just my two cents.
Great video though.
EDIT: And while CDNs help take off the load, they also cost something. Cloudfront offers 50GB, and then $0.085 per GB. Practically the same pricing as normal data-out pricing.
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I have to agree with OrlandoCo, not because I want to hurt your feelings, but because they have very valid point.
I was very excited to try and get into the world of AWS/Azure and get in on the buzz on functions and next-gen cloud design choices. In the end, I was horrified at the price of bandwidth. Storage is cheap, but it's expensive to get it out of their datacentres.
Being a hobbyist programmer and filmographer, I need a plcae to host my films. They're 1-3 GB each. I calculated that every time some downloads this film from a cloud provider, it will cost me 10-30 cents.
Now, put this into perspective with a VPS company such as Hetzner who give you a free 20TB of traffic a month, with a surcharge of 1 euro per TB, while giving you a production ready server, SDDs and all for two euros a month.
No brainer. I would rather set up a Linux VPS, Postgres database, Node.js installation, nginx than to create a conceptually sound API that costs me high heaven. From what I've heard, many companies end up returning back to in-house hosting after seeing the bill, but it's a very controversial topic.
I feel that cloud services are a bit like React, striving for design perfection, but impractical in the end (animation libraries have to hack past React to get any decent performance).
This is just my two cents.
Great video though.
EDIT: And while CDNs help take off the load, they also cost something. Cloudfront offers 50GB, and then $0.085 per GB. Practically the same pricing as normal data-out pricing.