Comment by francisofascii
1 year ago
I guess I never want my personal blog/site to be successful. Can't trust that I will wake up to a huge bill from EC2 or my CDN provider. Feels like health insurance in that even when you have insurance, you are never 100% confident you will not get some huge hospital bill. The pessimistic part of me says this is all deliberate to prevent the "little guy" from competing these days.
If you run on a single EC2 instance and you aren’t running an auto scaling cluster or anything of the sort, it would be pretty hard to get a huge bill. I much prefer that and the chance that it goes down then autoscaling or severless. Most serverless solutions have also gotten so config heavy or complex to make changes that most projects feel much better to me on an instance I can ssh into and poke around without having to call up support.
Thanks, I use a "small" EC2 instance for my personal stuff (about $35 a month), with the Cloudflare free version, but I honestly don't know and what would happen if something went viral or a DOS. Would the bill be double? Triple? Would the site simply crash. What does Cloudflare do? I honestly have no idea.
Site would just not run if you're using EC2 directly and the machine can't handle it. Not sure what cloudflare does, i don't use it, just AWS directly :)