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