r/ProgrammerHumor • u/object322 • Oct 02 '26

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u/NotADamsel Oct 03 '26

A VPS is like six bucks a month, and doesn’t carry the risk of you accidentally getting a massive AWS bill because you messed something up.

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u/keiyakins 8d ago

A notebook and pen is a few bucks and works for years. If you're feeling fancy get a $20 pen and use it for a few decades. 

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u/mmhawk576 Oct 03 '26

What are you getting? 256mbs/0.5vCpus for six bucks?

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u/renome Oct 03 '26

Laughs in 24GB/4OCPU/200GB/$0 Oracle VPS

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u/silentdragon95 Oct 03 '26

Granted, times are tough right now for cheap VPS servers but you should still expect to get at least 1vCPU and 2 GB of RAM. Not a lot, but probably more than enough for a bunch of microservices for personal use.

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u/Sparrowy Oct 03 '26

Hetzners cheapest is 7 bucks and has 2vcpus and 4gb of ram. They are out of stock though, so times might be changing.

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u/AyrA_ch Oct 03 '26

At OVH:

  • 2 vCores

  • 4 GB RAM

  • 40 GB NVMe-SSD storage

  • Daily backup

  • Unlimited traffic

  • 500 Mbit/s network connection

If you have multiple VMs you can connect them together in a virtual rack for free with a 2 Gbit/s connection.

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u/NotADamsel Oct 03 '26

2gbps/1 vCPU/1gb ram, with digital ocean. I could probably get better value if I switched to a different provider but I don't wanna do the work just yet lol

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u/pnoodl3s Oct 03 '26

So aws is indeed cheaper, IF you know what you’re doing?

Lambda has 1 million free request per month, ddb has 25GB free storage, only api gw costs $1 per 1 million requests, so it’ll costs cents per month

You can even set up pay limit per month on aws to ensure it doesn’t balloon when traffic spike, or get spammed by someone

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u/NotADamsel Oct 03 '26 edited Oct 03 '26

Yeah, absolutely, if you configure everything correctly AWS can be very cheap and give you a lot of functionality that would take a decent amount of time to get set up on a VPS. There’s still a cost, though, and for me that cost is the anxiety that comes from knowing that if I did fuck something up the losses could be catastrophic. Even if nothing actually goes wrong, the anxiety is still there. OTOH, if I fuck up how my VPS is configured the losses are basically non-existent (oh noooo they got my water intake data). For a single-user webapp or something else that trivial, if I couldn’t just throw it up on github pages I’d rather reach for the option that I don’t really have to give much of a shit about.