Someone asked me why I didn't put my personal web server on AWS instead of on Hetzner. Because on AWS it would be 10x more expensive for the same specs. The cloud makes *no* sense for personal 24x7 "it just does its thing" long-term workloads.
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The cheapest dedicated servers go for €15-€25/mo. €25 on Hetzner gets you a 4C8T Xeon, 16GB RAM, 2x3TB HDD, unlimited traffic €25 on AWS gets you 1C2T, 2GB RAM, 200GB storage, 1GB out/mo before they start charging extra
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The cloud's great if you're a company with money to burn, or need hourly/minutely pricing, or dynamic scaling, or just want to use all those managed services they offer and not have to deal with admining them.
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But if you just want "a Linux box for a pile of personal projects/sites that just sits there and works"? You're throwing money away if you spin up a cloud instance, unless your resource usage is small enough that you get into a pricing tier below the cheapest dedicated servers.
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Replying to @marcan42 @SwiftOnSecurity
I do think there are plenty of use cases that fall into the "sub-dedicated-instance" price range. I host a couple of low-traffic static webapps/websites using S3 + Route 53. I pay a whopping $0.51/month, and they've got something absurd like five nines worth of availability.
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Replying to @GravityPike @SwiftOnSecurity
Well yes, if you're hosting low traffic static websites, you obviously don't need nor want an actual server. Shared hosting has been a thing for ages too, though with pay-per-usage the cloud is definitely the cheapest option at the very bottom of the range.
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I host a pile of such static sites, but also things that need a real server, so the cost for me to host those static sites on the same box is 0. I.e. once you have *anything* that needs more than that, you're still better off putting static things on the same instance/box.
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