Software developer since 1995, started programming in 1983 with Sinclair BASIC. Java developer since 1997, some JavaScript. Recent experience building Spring Boot REST services and some React.
I've gone through multiple iterations of my personal site over the past 19 years and found there isn't any cheaper option to run a PHP based Wordpress than the cheapest VPS you can find for a couple of dollars a month. This static site approach is interesting, I'm going to take a closer look. However, seeing WAF in your diagram and knowing 1x WAF ACL is $5/month and 1x WAF Rule is $1/month, you already lost me. Reading through your longer article and seeing "WAF has fixed costs which completely break the ‘$0.01 a day’ clickbait" , yeah, you got me, I fell for your clickbait.
Haha, I feel your pain! I've looked several times at how to offer free or really cheap hosting to people. Best I can do today is lokl.dev - as you mentioned it's a personal site, it may fit your workflow OK. Else, would love to hear why not, maybe can adjust it.
Sorry @kevinhooke
- there's only so much you can optimize and if your use case requires a WAF (it's optional), there's no clever way around it aside from mitigating costs with a CloudFront Security Savings bundle. Consider though that there's not that much a WAF offers for a static site except perhaps DDoS mitigation from known bad IPs.
Hand on heart, one of my sites with this set-up (minus WAF) does indeed cost $0.01 a day.
Software developer since 1995, started programming in 1983 with Sinclair BASIC. Java developer since 1997, some JavaScript. Recent experience building Spring Boot REST services and some React.
I've gone through multiple iterations of my personal site over the past 19 years and found there isn't any cheaper option to run a PHP based Wordpress than the cheapest VPS you can find for a couple of dollars a month. This static site approach is interesting, I'm going to take a closer look. However, seeing WAF in your diagram and knowing 1x WAF ACL is $5/month and 1x WAF Rule is $1/month, you already lost me. Reading through your longer article and seeing "WAF has fixed costs which completely break the ‘$0.01 a day’ clickbait" , yeah, you got me, I fell for your clickbait.
Haha, I feel your pain! I've looked several times at how to offer free or really cheap hosting to people. Best I can do today is lokl.dev - as you mentioned it's a personal site, it may fit your workflow OK. Else, would love to hear why not, maybe can adjust it.
Sorry @kevinhooke - there's only so much you can optimize and if your use case requires a WAF (it's optional), there's no clever way around it aside from mitigating costs with a CloudFront Security Savings bundle. Consider though that there's not that much a WAF offers for a static site except perhaps DDoS mitigation from known bad IPs.
Hand on heart, one of my sites with this set-up (minus WAF) does indeed cost $0.01 a day.
I'm still interested in the approach, so will still be taking a look. $0.01 is still less than my current $4/month VPS, although not by that much.