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by chuckadams23 hours ago |
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upvoteby embedding-shape22 hours ago|
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If there is any single service I'd avoid on AWS it's Lightsail, it'll cost you a lot more than almost anything out there, is slow as molasses (even tiny services can need tens of minutes to deploy) and you'll experience random failures not even AWS reps can explain to you. Avoid at all costs.

It's a ghost of its former self, but I'd probably still rather use Heroku today than being forced to use Lightsail even once again.

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upvoteby callmeal19 hours ago|
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>Lightsail, it'll cost you a lot more than almost anything out there,

Lightsail is pretty competitive (price wise) with other providers. Been running s B2B app on it for a few years now - nothing much, just your basic crud app running on lightsail instance + lightsail db. Nice to have a "monthly" rate on each instead of the EC2 opaque (and "surprise!") pricing.

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upvoteby 22 hours ago|
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upvoteby graemep20 hours ago|
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I have only use lightsail for one project with two VPSs, but it just works like a VPS (two, because we have another for staging). Price is competitive.

Its not my favourite, but its not terrible.

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upvoteby Insanity20 hours ago|
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Same experience here, hosting some small projects on LightSail. It was pretty smooth to set up and get running, and no real complaints so far.
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upvoteby themgt22 hours ago|
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Congrats, your raw EC2-hosted 500MB WebGL experimental card game went to the HN Front Page! You now owe AWS $30k in egress costs.
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upvoteby aorloff20 hours ago|
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Well this is the dream right ?

You build something, well enough that it can handle the traffic, and people come, and it does.

Welcome to the gaming industry

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upvoteby baobabKoodaa16 hours ago|
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No, it is not the dream. The same thing on Hetzner or Linode would cost $30 instead of $30k.
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upvoteby hkpack11 hours ago|
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> Well this is the dream right ?

Yes it is, we call these dreams a nightmare

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upvoteby nostrebored21 hours ago|
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Egress costs have substantially reduced (thankfully)
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upvoteby ipsento60619 hours ago|
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> You can just spin up a raw VPS on EC2 or Lightsail, give it a public IP, and call it a day

You could do this, but for the life of me I can't imagine why you do this over using a platform like DO, vultr, hetzner or any one of a hundred similar services that will give you a better developer experience for this kind of workflow, often at a fraction of the price

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upvoteby chuckadams19 hours ago|
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I never said it would be cheaper. I did say it wasn't complicated.
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upvoteby DaanDL23 hours ago|
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But that's costly. Speaking of my own experience: going from a webapp fully hosted on an EC2 instance to a railway and vercel setup reduced my costs 10x.
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upvoteby liveoneggs22 hours ago|
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t4g.nano is $3/m; a similar spec-ed fargate on ecs (just any docker container) is $10/m
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upvoteby jfengel22 hours ago|
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This sentence beautifully encapsulates my point. I know that this is just ordinary jargon, but wow that's a lot all at once. And it does seem like something I need to know before I start.
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upvoteby liveoneggs18 hours ago|
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sure but on the flip side - when I signed up for vercel I had literally no idea what was going on. It just said "do you want to start a blog? here are 1000 templaptes"
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upvoteby chuckadams23 hours ago|
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Maybe so, but it's still not the complexity nightmare that some would have us believe it is.
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upvoteby te_chris21 hours ago|
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“EC2 or Lightsail”. And this right here is why I use GCP. Google got VMs right.
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upvoteby nostrebored20 hours ago|
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GCP has similar offerings to Lightsail, Fargate, EC2, Lambda, or other compute substrates. Nobody is forcing you to use more than “basic” offerings. AWS core services are often architected that way!
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