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| title | description | date | draft | category |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Migrating to Vulr | Finally moving away from AWS little by little | 2024-10-27T20:59:05-07:00 | false | article |
What and Why
For some time now I've been trying my best to get away from using AWS for my infrastructure due to the constantly rising price of everything.
Main causes for higher cost
- Fargate
This one is mostly my own fault lmao since Fargate ( without an application load balancer ) is actually not that bad in terms of pricing. The issue comes in if you are trying to host a variety of services like myself on one host. Services which, are only ever really used for personal and singular use.
Recall that with fargate we are paying for things on a core count and if you containize everything this effectively means you are paying per container more/less. Couple this with lots of contains and your pricing starts to get really expensive really fast.
- Application Load Balancer
These are just expensive for small projects what else can I say... I wouldn't suggest hosting personal sites behind one of these basically ever.
- Scaling
If you seriously need an ALB to sit in front of lots of microservices then you're probably dealing with either an interesting project or just a need to handle a lot of traffic. After a while I didn't really want a web server to be my "interesting project" since this ended up eating way more of my time than I would have ever liked it to...
Why Vultr
shit's cheap yo...
10$ - 20$ roughly for a bare minimum Kubernetes cluster or about 10$ per host as I'm doing now. Provision hosts with Terraform then configure with Ansible and you have a somewhat reasonable infrastructure for hosting personal projects.
What Do I host now?
- shockrah.xyz
- git.shockrah.xyz <-- Gitea instance
- temper.tv <-- vr/funsies blog
Basically I'm hosting more stuff more effectively and it's an infrastructure that is ""(({{platform agnostic}}""given its all Terraform anyway and Ansible can be used basically anywhere there's a host.