If you're generally familiar with one or more services out there: What's the cost landscape as you know it?
No services are apples-to-apples, but I'm curious about the big leaders in cost-effectiveness.
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I'd say the firebase one is true to a degree. However, depending how you've written your Firestore code, you could end up exceeding your free quota very quickly.
There's a lot more thought needed around, when to read data from firestore and how often you do so.
Complex project less than $30/month? May I know how many users are using your app?
Wow that's awesome ππ
Btw, would you suggest Vercel or Netlify? Which one's better?
Firebase is more of a PaaS than and IaaS
Oracle Cloud is 1/7th of the cost of computing then AWS, or that's at least what I keep being told. I didn't bother to crunch the numbers.
You have to be very specific about what cloud services and what cobinations because it's really complicated.
I like Digital Ocean for my personal projects. Very clean dashboard and cheap pricing.
It has all the things that I need, root access, server stats, server monitoring/notifications, automated backups, cloud firewall, VPC network.
Heroku + Cloudflare + Custom domainis probably the cheapest way to deploy Docker with HTTPS.But now I stick with Google Cloud Run, as it is faster and scalable as well.
Of course, Qovery is more customizable and powerful, but it still feels experimental to me. Nonetheless, Qovery team on Discord is very active.
Thanks Pacharapol π We work hard to make it better day by day.
Hetzner
Aruba cloud
Ssdnodes
Ordered by reliability. But these 3 are my go-to for any time I just need some standard components without getting murdered on price.
Bare metal always will be the cheapest and highest performance for sure.
Buy a vps with kvm / cloud account and then install opennebula. Your own private cloud.
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Inside article there are links for opennebula and easy cloudstack installation.
I think the better place to start is to ask what sort of services do you want. There's a ton of options out there and its easier to look at options by cutting out providers that don't have the services you want. Do you want managed databases? Is it OK with you if they're proprietary databases (e.g., are you fine with using firebase / dynamodb / cosmosdb)? Do you want Kubernetes as a service? Or just infrastructure as a service?
I can recommend looking at some underdogs like linode or digitalocean which have a pretty good offering of services for the cost. Its very hard to calculate prices accurately because there's a lot of differences in how each provider bills you. For example digitalocean and azure give you the Kubernetes control plane for free, but with AWS you have to pay IIRC. There's also some gotchas with ELB compared to other load balancers.
I use Heroku for nearly all of my hobby projects. We've even started using it at my place of work for it's ease of deployment, auto-scaling and monitoring. It's very easy to start spending larger sums of money on their but it's very transparent.
For starters and medium projects I can definitely recommend Heroku.
It is dead simple, you can use free dynos for apps that don't need to be always live.
Hobby dynos (something like a simple EC2) start only 7 USD per month, and we handled HackerNews traffic with them at SwissDevJobs.ch
I've been using heroku for personal projects that I'd like to run 24/7 and not having to leave my machine on and I seem to be able to manage to squeeze by with the free monthly credit, though I believe it it is intended for development/prototyping purposes only and not for commercial use? Not sure.
I saw Vercel being recommended and it doesn't appear to have an issue with commercial vs non-commercial projects so I might switch to that for more commercial projects. It also supports Ruby which is something I like.