The $1,000 AWS mistake
– www.geocod.io – Edit
A cautionary tale about AWS VPC networking, NAT Gateways, and how a missing VPC Endpoint turned S3 data transfers into an expensive lesson.
Read more [www.geocod.io]
How Ahrefs Gets a Billion Dollar-Worth Infrastructure With a 90% Discount
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Choosing colocation for the infrastructure was the right decision for Ahrefs.
Read more [tech.ahrefs.com]
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Why You Should Start Self Hosting
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Rohan Deshmukh on the value of avoiding SaaS products and self-host instead.
Read more [rohanrd.xyz]
How does Treblle scale on AWS without breaking the bank?
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Here's how Treblle, a large Laravel app, manages to keep their AWS costs low.
Read more [treblle.com]
How I Got Pwned by My Cloud Costs
– www.troyhunt.com – Edit
Troy Hunt recently got a very high bill for his severless hosting. In this post, he share why the bill was so high, and how he's avoiding this for future bills.
Read more [www.troyhunt.com]
Cost & Performance optimization in Laravel Vapor
Mohammed Said shares some solid tips on optimizing costs when working in a serverless environment like Laravel Vapor
Laravel Vapor uses different AWS resources to efficiently get your application up and running in the serverless cloud. The building block of the whole thing is AWS Lambda, it's where the actual computing happens. Calculating the cost of the compute part for your application can be a bit confusing, so let's simplify it a bit with an example.
Read more [divinglaravel.com]
From MailChimp to Sendy: how I saved 600$ a year
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Mattias Geniar recently moved his excellent newsletter from MailChimp to Sendy. In a new post on his site he shares why and how he did that.
I recently moved away from MailChimp for the cron.weekly newsletter and chose a self-hosted newsletter app called Sendy in combination with Amazon SES. In doing so, I saved over 600$ a year.
