• Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
      22·
      9 months ago

      I 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.)

      • lordnikon@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        9 months ago

        to answer your question you can with budgets under cost explorer and running everything as a cloudformation template

      • whereisk@lemmy.world
        3·
        9 months ago

        Have 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.

        • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
          13·
          9 months ago

          Have you heard of virtual debit cards?

          I tried one and it didn’t work. Reading about it said they block those.

          I don’t need an email. I need it to stop instantly. In the time it takes me to notice an email, I could have hundreds of dollars in charges.

        • Kogasa
          9·
          9 months ago

          All cloud providers will support budget notifications. That doesn’t do much good when you shoot past the budget in a short timespan. I set a Google cloud budget of $20/month and enabled a Tensorboard instance, which had no observable indication that it cost anything except the base cost of the VM, and got notified that I was $280 over budget the next day. Apparently there was an upfront $300/month/user fee for Tensorboard. (Several months later they changed the pricing model to $10 GiB/month with no user fee.)

  • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    30·
    9 months ago

    I’m the opposite. I build things using the YOLO practice, then refactor to scale if my shit becomes popular :D

    • TrumpetXEnglish
      5·
      9 months ago

      I think you meant YAGNI, but I dunno, YOLO might be a legit strategy for you too ;)

      • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        1·
        9 months ago

        YAGNI

        At an abstract level, sure. But no, I mostly meant I just start coding and see where it takes me :D

    • marcos@lemmy.world
      4·
      9 months ago

      What 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.

      • lemming741@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        9 months ago

        None 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.

    • SirQuackTheDuck@lemmy.world
      3·
      9 months ago

      I 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

      • jacecomix@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        9 months ago

        I 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.

  • tatterdemalion
    8·
    9 months ago

    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.

  • 1984@lemmy.today
    6·
    9 months ago

    I 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.