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by DaanDL 46 days ago
But that's costly. Speaking of my own experience: going from a webapp fully hosted on an EC2 instance to a railway and vercel setup reduced my costs 10x.
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t4g.nano is $3/m; a similar spec-ed fargate on ecs (just any docker container) is $10/m
This sentence beautifully encapsulates my point. I know that this is just ordinary jargon, but wow that's a lot all at once. And it does seem like something I need to know before I start.
sure but on the flip side - when I signed up for vercel I had literally no idea what was going on. It just said "do you want to start a blog? here are 1000 templaptes"
Maybe so, but it's still not the complexity nightmare that some would have us believe it is.