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646 points digianarchist | 2 comments | 06 Oct 20 14:59 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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user5994461 ◴[06 Oct 20 17:20 UTC] No.24700185[source]▶
I am so glad to see this. I was looking to deploy an app and the choice is either Heroku or manage your own server which I don't want to do.

Heroku gives instant deployment for the most common types of apps (python/java/ruby). It's PaaS done right, it's fantastic. You should really have a look if you're not aware of it, it's only $7 for a starter app.

Problem is, scaling up is about $50 per gigabyte of memory which makes it a dead end for anything non trivial. You're forced to go to digital ocean / Linode / OVH instead to have something affordable.

That leaves Digital Ocean as the only alternative (don't trust Linode) and it sucks because it only gives me a server to manage. I don't want to manage a server I want to run a (python) application. It's 2020 this sort of things should auto deploy from GitHub without bothering me to manage an operating system.

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NOGDP ◴[06 Oct 20 22:57 UTC] No.24703398[source]▶
The digital ocean volume pricing of $1/10GB per month seems very steep... I can literally buy fresh SSDs every month for that money. The container pricing is reasonable though.
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1. names_are_hard ◴[08 Oct 20 11:11 UTC] No.24717987[source]▶
This is the approximately going rate for all the major cloud providers (links [0]). Sure, you could buy your own SSDs, but how are you going to connect them to the VMs? I suppose this might be where their profit is, especially because these are logical volumes anyway. But it's not like you can just go out and beat this price at home with minimal effort.

[0] Amazon ($0.1/GB): https://aws.amazon.com/ebs/pricing/

Azure ($0.075/GB): https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/managed-di...

Google ($0.17/GB): https://cloud.google.com/persistent-disk/#section-7

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2. NOGDP ◴[08 Oct 20 15:30 UTC] No.24720051[source]▶
> But it's not like you can just go out and beat this price at home with minimal effort.

That's exactly what I did. Taking the cost of my time for setting everything up and maintaining it, I estimate the net cost is about 1/10th of what it would be in the cloud.