my tiny blogs no one reads have been racking up a huge deno deploy and vercel bills ($40-50/mo each) bc I ran them "naked" without a cache or cloudflare or static builds - it didnt matter bc I got like hundreds of visitors a month. they were just hono or whatever api pulling from my backend which could be notion or airtable - super simple, though kind of slow

now I suddenly I have 10k visitors a month hammering my apis and causing massive egress and cpu usage - so i had to get them behind cloudflare and now build everything statically - cut the costs back down from 90+ cpu hours to about 0.2 cpu hours a month

crazy times

(also, all donw w/ claude code's help, or it would have taken a week for me to figure out)

This is why I don't use those serverless setup.

$4 hetzner vps can serve tons of request if you put cloudflare in front of it

I host my own runners for CI and artifcat building on Hetzner VPS (spun on demand).

People are easily lured by pay as you go plans on serverless and other cheap to get started managed services and end up racking huge bills.

This is same reason I don't use stack driver or cloud monitoring and prefer to use graphana + loki + Prometheus setup

My setup cannot be misconfigured and end up racking huge bills.