How do you handle the costs Amazon light sail, digital oceans droplets, AWS ec2 , etc?

You handle the costs of AWS by not using AWS

"Fuckinnng bezos..."

@12bitfloat what about lightsail

@johnmelodyme Is there a reason you want to host on AWS vs a cheap $5-$10 vps?

@johnmelodyme that's still aws. You limit and monitor things (especially increases over a short time monitoring help) and use a good cloud architect so you get the most cost effective setup. As soon as you know the usage patterns you can move some things to spot instances and some things to reserved. That makes it a lot cheaper.

@johnmelodyme Actually light sail might be alright as long as the inbound/outbound traffic charges won't kill you

I "handle" the cost by using Vultr instead since it's cheaper.

I started using Oracle Cloud too since their free tier is ridiculously generous.

@EmberQuill between vultr and digital oceans which one you think is good?

@johnmelodyme Vultr and DigitalOcean are about on par in terms of service and what they offer, but Vultr is a little cheaper so I switched to Vultr a few years ago. I've been happy with them ever since, though I may end up moving everything to Oracle Cloud since I can run almost everything within their free-forever tier.

I've heard Oracle is quite cheap. You could also buy your own gear, and host things w/ a cloudflare tunnel if you don't care about the drop in HA and like managing hardware