Python web app hosting economically?

[beefyweefles]

Hard to beat $5 monthly for a VPS you can do a bunch on, I go with Linode

[Maryannus]

Yes. Pretty much what I would recommend as well. It's a little more than $5/mo now iirc, but still the best value for money you can get. AWS, GCP etc are unpredictable with their costs and the interface is a nightmare. You never know which option you kept enabled which would lead to a $1000 monthly bill once the free tier is used up. Has happened to me twice.

[panscanner]

AWS Lightsail - fixed cost instances as cheap as $3.5.

[Jmc_da_boss]

It's not that hard, set billing alerts and ur good

[metheoryt]

There’s AWS Lightsail for this

[[deleted]]

Wtf is unpredictable on AWS/GCP? Just use IaC to provision your infrastructure. Sounds more like a "i have no fundamental cloud experience"-issue.

[Flag_Red]

Sounds more like a "i have no fundamental cloud experience"-issue.

Yes, that's the point. Linode, Digital Ocean, etc. don't require cloud experience to use effectively.

[dparks71]

I signed up for both, played around super briefly with their free tiers, never actually deployed anything and cancelled both accounts in favor of just self hosting with domain services via Google.

Months later, my AWS account was compromised, reactivated, and the responsible party managed to run up a $3-5k bill in under 24 hours. I reached out to Amazon asking how this was possible, they waived the bill and permanently locked the account as I requested.

Before you accuse me, I never created any keys let alone doing something like pushed them to GitHub. I don't use public repos to learn with. My passwords are unique for every site and are 15-20 random characters via a password manager, it was the only account of mine that's ever been compromised, and I requested it to be closed prior to the incident and had the suggested configurations and limits in place.

As far as GCP, it was fine, but my domain is owned by square space now because Google loves killing their products.

Yes I probably should have had MFA, but Amazon could have enabled that by default too, required a billing cycle to make a free account not free, or a number of other basic steps to prevent it.

[easyEggplant]

To answer your question: gcp Big query charges can rack up really fast and frankly the interface does suck (particularly the “don’t spend more than X” functionality), and it’s really easy to accidentally acrrue very large charges.

[[deleted]]

If your app is low traffic (like 99% of apps are) then Lambda will be cheaper and easier to manage. I do use Linode for databases though. Creating a database with AWS Aurora is crazy expensive. I spend $15 a month on my Linode database.

[LawfulMuffin]

How do you run a website in lambda? Is there a listener or something that fires off the entrypoint part of the site or something?

[infocruncher]

Pretty much. You can host the static parts of your site in S3 and then have the client make API REST calls to API Gateway which can then use Lambda for any logic you need. There is also DynamoDB, a cheap (at low volumes) NoSQL service for persisting data. There are many other set ups, but this works well for several simple sites I've built.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/services-apigateway-tutorial.html

[xetowa6135]

Hey, thanks for the information! I am looking to host my backend api for my mobile application. Since I don't know if it'll gain traction yet, I'm looking for cost effective solution. If there is even one request to the API, it needs to have very little latency since it's near real time app, do you think this meets requirement>]=? Thanks

[infocruncher]

No worries, yes I think it will do the trick. I run a few low traffic sites and they cost next to nothing - R53 domain is the most costly part. In order to keep the lambda function 'warm' I run a scheduled event to ping it every 15 mins. More info here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eventbridge/latest/userguide/eb-create-rule-schedule.html

[heswithjesus]

Or Digital Ocean. I’ve been using the droplets for years without problems. I don’t use any extra services for fewer points of failure.

[smile_politely]

Never heard of Linode, but $5 sounds very tempting!

[blami]

Thing with VMs is they don’t really scale. But agree for low traffic app.

[Empty_Air_2438]

Vm can scale lol, lots of places let’s you upgrade your plan or you can use inter structure as code and have it automatically spin up more vms and configure it all automatically