Autoscaling for personal projects is just a tool to turn random DDOS into personal bankruptcy.
97I scale by dropping requests
60I don't understand how anyone uses a paid API for a personal project. I looked hard into MS, Google and Amazon a few years ago for a project and couldn't find anywhere where you could hard block services to never ever go above the free tier.
Considering that I'll build a project and forget about it for years, putting in my credit card into a cloud service was a guaranteed gigantic bill sometime in the future when things went wrong. (Over your life, something is guaranteed to go wrong.)
22Oracle cloud will stop things if it goes out of the free tier.
10to answer your question you can with budgets under cost explorer and running everything as a cloudformation template
5Have you heard of virtual debit cards? You can't charge what's not there.
Also, at least AWS will in fact send you an email when you approach the end of free tour usage.
Having said all that, most devs can host the few hundred visits they might get over a month with a $200 home server and a free CloudFlare cache if they know what they're doing.
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I'm the opposite. I build things using the YOLO practice, then refactor to scale if my shit becomes popular :D
30I think you meant YAGNI, but I dunno, YOLO might be a legit strategy for you too ;)
5YAGNI
At an abstract level, sure. But no, I mostly meant I just start coding and see where it takes me :D
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And it clearly works, considering I personally know like 3 projects you made!
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On behalf of /c/selfhosted we resent this image
27What in there are you doing in your self-hosted environment?
They are all way too much work for no gain at all. Arguably useful if you have enough scale, but even then it's arguably.
4None of those specifically, but after you have a virtualization host your flock tends to grow pretty quickly. More that I'm hosting big multi-user things like nextcloud for a single user.
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Hey, not fair. It’s one user, ok? I mean, that’s me, but still
25Webcrawlers count as users too, right?
15So... Me and the Google bot. I still don't know how to convince the Bing bot the thing exists.
6Only if you let them
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My spoon's too big.
20Insert dick!
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Edit: I misread your comment. facepalm
W.e I'm leaving the link to Rejected.1
I am a banana
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12I can hear this gif
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My rectum is bleeding.
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But you're prepared for when it gets big! It's inevitable!
10Just one more round of funding and then…
That’s the Reddit strategy of platform development.
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Learn to solve problems using programming. Go learn Python. Stick with the basics and have fun. If you start worrying about losing older versions of your code, learn Git. Grow from there.
Kubernetes? Microservices? Cloud platform? These are all distractions and a waste of your time.
10I used to have this enormous dev folder of projects. Some with git, some before I knew what it was.
I clinged and backed it up like crazy, until I actually looked at what was contained (spoiler: horrid code). Then I just got used to burning some old code. Now I'm often distracted by stuff like docker, kubernetes and that stuff
It's fun though, I've grown a bunch. but the setup sometimes does overscale badly
3I have a personal project that was getting big and unruly, and I'm so happy I learned how to use Docker and converted all the little pieces into their own repos and containers.
That being said, I totally went down rabbit holes that didn't end up being helpful, like setting up my own CI/CD or trying to learn Kubernetes. They were totally overkill for me.1
Yea except serverless you pay for usage, so if you have zero users, it's free! Just make sure you put a hard limit on autoscaling.
8I used to build things this way for a learning experience, because I knew it would be valuable on some job later.
But these days when I work with aws every day, I go for simple, cheap solutions outside of aws for private projects.
6Implying I know how to do any of this
5vaporware vs ransomware
5But those are th3 fun parts!
3Put everything in one app
2why is it that every time i become more of a linux user, things only seem to get worse around me? Is this how linux works?
2I am a banana.
2Hey, it's for practising!
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