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by purec 1905 days ago
I personally use Firebase for all my static sites. Completely free and fast. If you need to run some backend function they have Firebase functions which is free to a certain degree too.

Example site: https://jeremyshaw.co.nz

Other than that I'm sure Github Pages and Netlify are fine, both very popular options.

Worst case you put it on Amazon S3 and get charged a fraction of a dollar every month .
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BrandoElFollito 1905 days ago
Except if you get hit by a DDoS.

The fact that you cannot put a cap on your spending is infuriating (the official AWS answer is "we do not want to break your business" (even if I want to)).

To be fair, some complaining or crying in such cases usually gets your bill reversed.

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mtlynch 1905 days ago
You don't mean literally distributed denial of service attack, right? It's super easy to keep serving a static resource, so I think you'd need a huge amount of traffic to put a dent in Firebase's static hosting capacity.

I've had spikes of up to 300k visitors to my Firebase blog in a month, and the bill was like $150. It seems hard to get bitten by huge surprise costs from a blog on Firebase static hosting, even if someone's using a botnet to try to drive up your bill.

Edit: Thinking about it a little more, I guess you could find the largest resource on a blog and direct your botnet to download it nonstop repeatedly, and that would be orders of magnitude more expensive than even large organic traffic.

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dkarras 1904 days ago
That is... $150 you definitely didn't have to spend.
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BrandoElFollito 1904 days ago
> so I think you'd need a huge amount of traffic to put a dent in Firebase's static hosting capacity.

No, I was referring to your bill, when your resource usage spikes (really spikes, as in sustained Gbps+ traffic spikes). Many people were taken aback by the unexpected bills.

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villasv 1905 days ago
You can, it's just very convoluted.

You can set up billing alarms and use alarms as triggers for actions.

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VPenkov 1905 days ago
One of those stories that get posted every other month about "How I racked up $xx000 bill for Firebase" explained that they had billing alarms but they weren't exactly real time.

Also, you might be the main/only site administrator, in which case falling asleep might end up badly for you.

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