Ask HN: Scalable Hosting for Side Project

[sergex]

I have a side project which sometimes get many visitors. I initially hosted it on a cheap hosting provider, but on the first surge of visitors it got hugged to death. So I quickly moved to Microsoft Azure, and since then I had no downtime. However Azure have a relatively large monthly cost for such a non-commercial project. It seems more geared towards businesses.

I wonder if there is some alternatives which the HN can recommend? I'm looking for something which can handle a surge but with a lover baseline cost.

[arachno1999]

I used Scaleway and Hetzner so far. Both are good regarding GDPDR issues and both have well working APIs and can be integrated with Terraform. Hetzner starts at 2.99 €/month With the smallest virtual server.

[robertcope]

Is it something you could build/deploy as a Cloudflare Worker?

[sergex]

It is a web site, but it seems they have a "sites" plan for 5$ a month. Looks great, thanks!