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by jrsmith1279 3452 days ago
You know, this is something that could be built as a "serverless" app for almost no cost using AWS services like SES, S3, Lambda, and DynamoDB. I'm sure that the VPS doesn't cost much, but it's a cost whether anyone is visiting the site or not.

Edit: Didn't mean to sound negative, so I hope it doesn't come across that way. Good job on building something! I've been struggling with that myself and these types of posts motivate me to just build something.
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ihazspam 3452 days ago
Possibly yes; but I'm really not familiar at all with Amazon's multiple services. I wanted to be up and running as fast as possible. Day job is old school ASP.NET WebForms stuff so I was already familiar with .Net tooling.

The VPS cost 5$ per month. If this gets some traffic, I might put some ads on it or use the same VPS for other things.

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