On: Building a static serverless website using S3 and CloudFront

[Tilian]

It's amazing how truly unreliable ultra-cheap VPS providers can be. You're lucky if you even get an upfront notice before they decommission hardware you are relying on, or the entire company just disappears overnight.

Usually you get what you pay for.

[superkuh → Tilian]

I've used the same openvz instance with my ultra-cheap VPS providerfor as long as google's "Cloud" platform has effectively existed. It's been extremely solid with almost instant support over IRC. I've paid $5/mo for this the last decade.

Sounds like you just made some bad choices. Big companies are only marginally less likely to disapear services than small companies are to disappear.

[cc-d → superkuh]

Is this company named RN?

You've described my experience exactly.

[nerdkid93 → Tilian]

Google Cloud gives you 1 free f1-micro compute instance. Coupled with a CDN like Cloudflare or Netlify, it should be beefy enough for a static site.

[WJW → nerdkid93]

At that point, why even keep the compute instance? You can get them to host your static content entirely.

[jskrablin → nerdkid93]

Or setup a Google cloud domain named bucket and put Cloudflare in front.

[s_dev → Tilian]

Digital Ocean is $5 per month. You could probably run hundreads of static sites off a single instance depending on traffic and these days many websites are just business cards really.

[heavyset_go → Tilian]

It costs like $2 for the lowest tier VPS through OVH, and they aren't going to disappear overnight.

[z3t4 → Tilian]

Not a problem. VPS's are a commodity, you just switch to another supplier and repeat the steps. If it's too much trouble, make a bash script that runs the setup. If you can spare a few extra dollars per month, sign up to additional providers for redundancy.