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		oefrha on March 29, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to burn the most money with a single click in ... Yeah, for my personal projects I always stick to flat fee hosts like Linode and only ever used AWS for some backup storage in S3, and GCP for a geographical region that Linode doesn’t serve well. And whenever I use the big clouds I get paranoid and have to check billing & usage very often since I’m always just one oops/DDoS away from incurring a large bill, as opposed to the flat fee hosts where I leave shit running for months or years at a time without worrying. (FWIW Amazon Lightsail might be a flat fee service, but I heard performance is pretty bad so never tried it.)

ghaff on March 29, 2020 [–]

I think even Lightsail can expose you to data transfer overages although I don't know how large a bill those could realistically add up to.

oefrha on March 29, 2020 | [–]

Yes, Lightsail’s egress overage fee is the same as EC2’s crazy egress pricing (at least $0.09/GB), whereas Linode charges me a much more reasonable $0.01/GB if I go over.

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