Comment by jefozabuss
1 year ago
If you want to sleep tight just get a dedicated server or VPS from something like Hetzner and/or combine with CDN providers like BunnyCDN - set up alerts just in case though. It takes more time and resources to manage it but you could save a lot on it in this case.
This so much. My hetzner (best choice for a media server within Europe) has 0 downtime in 1.5 years. And exactly as you said I am using bunny as well, which costs me a few $ per year.
> It takes more time and resources to manage it
For most of the new web projects, setting up your brand new server is pretty well documented process and should not take more than couple of hours.
It get complicated when you grow and add more servers or components. But at that point, you should be able to afford a part-time consultant to handle complicated tasks or just use Cloud then.
I'd even say build your system so as it can run on shared hosting. This way you even save the management.
That is my setup after leaving AWS for some of my services (low user amount b2b).
I put in far less resources and maintenance after I had the system running. Especially if you need to manage the software running anyway.