Im building a dead simple online store. So far the options are:
0) heroku, with redis
1) aws lambda functions and some aws storage
2) set up a vps

The domain will be a cheap .store domain, and 1 and 2 should not exceed the limit where its not free anymore. I dont want wordpress or anything premade, i dont expect more than 50 orders. Is there a more stupid solution that lets me try out different providers?

Never used heroku, but the option 1 is most probably cheaper and way easier to maintain than option 2. If you want something even easier take a look at firebase.

@molaram why not

I Google aws lambda functions and it says that available languages: English language. Didn't know I can code in English...

Lambda is better for glue, wouldn't do it unless you're fully eventual.

@ilikeglue something something bojler

@SortOfTested i think i would have 3 endpoints, is replacing those with 3 functions far fetched?

@yellow-dog
The spin up time becomes the issue. It still has some provisioning wait. Experiments we did showed that a 250 micro core ECS container was faster and only marginally more expensive.

Python was also the best performer in our lambda scenarios due to its startup time.

@SortOfTested ah thanks, its a big no then, i wanna use a jvm language.

That seems everything but dead simple to me.
Want dead simple?
Static HTML with PayPal buy buttons.
Support and tracking via email/PayPal.
Now that’s dead simple.
If it’s really no more than X purchases and a handful of products why not consider it?
Or Shopify. Never used it but if a non-tech can do it I would say it doesn’t get any easier than that.
PS: This obviously depends on the use case, but I would do a react app (to avoid spaghetti) driven by JSON files hosted on S3 w/PayPal buttons if it fills all needs, invoicing and tracking via PayPal, email for support, if too much hassle for it would add Zendesk for a quick help center linked to email. As always, cloudflare on front and you can scale to the moon with a low overhead and zero worries lol.

@whiteagle i might try react, i always use vue for frontend, it would be a nice change of pace

@yellow-dog I mentioned react cause that’s what I’m used to, same goes for any similar technologies you’re used to! I personally use react because it had more adoption (I assume that’s still the case nowadays) when I started using it. If it’s a small project that you want to keep simple, ship fast and make easy to maintain stick to what you like, know and use - remember, if you use the project to learn and don’t like the outcome you’ll have to maintain it regardless (or rewrite it and spend 3x the time - cause you used 2x the time learning new stuff by this point).

@whiteagle im okay with taking more time, im not in a hurry, mostly want to learn new things with this project. The store is just merch for my meme page, so theres no real deadline.

You can try hetzner. It is also service provider, but very cheap