> The only reason to dramatically overpay for the hosting resources they provide is because you expect them to expertly manage security and stability.

This and because it's so convenient to click some buttons and have your application running. I've stopped being lazy, though. Moved everything from Render to linode. I was paying render $50+/month. Now I'm paying $3-5.

I would never use one of those hosting providers again.

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cleaning 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

If you're only paying $3-5 on Linode then your level of usage would probably be comfortably at $0 on Vercel.

	▲	0xmattf an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		It could be $0 on Render too, but then there's going to be a 3 minute load time for a landing page to become visible, lol. So if you don't want your server to sleep, you're going to have to pay $20/month. Does Vercel do the same?
	▲	esseph an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Makes sense considering the quality of Vercel's security response and customer communication.

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nightski 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Looking at linode, those prices get you an instance with 1Gb of ram and a mediocre CPU. So you are running all of your applications on that?

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0xmattf 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Personal projects/MVPs/small projects? Absolutely. For what I'm running, there's no reason to need anything beyond that.

The point is, I used to just throw everything up on a PaaS. Heroku/Render, etc. and pay way more than I needed to, even if I had 0 users, lol.

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adhamsalama 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

For $3.5, Hetzner gives 2 vCPU, 4GB RAM, 40 GB SSD, and 10 TB of bandwidth.

	▲	skeeter2020 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		how much work should the GP do to migrate if Linode is good enough, to potentially save up to $1.50/month (or spend 50 cents more)?

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p_stuart82 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

exactly people paid the premium so somebody else's OAuth screwup wouldn't become their Sunday. and here we are.

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