Can someone explain the pricing for DO, AWS, or any other cheap hosting? DO $15 bucks for 1 database or multiple database in one server? AWS S3 or E2? Or should I stick with Heroku $7 (Web App server) and $9 for Postgres database?

@wowotek, how's your company going? what did you guys use?

AWS S3 is file storage, think of it like a personal cdn, but can be used for other things like backups.

EC2 is a single server. Empty shell you'll need to install everything into, depending on your needs, start at small and upgrade if required.

You could go to lightsail on aws which is $3.50/month, gives you a small personal server you can do pretty much anything you want with before you need to scale up into load balancers and multiple ec2 instances.
you'll need an ec2 instance for a dbs if you go that way aswell but they are dedicated for that.

@C0D4 so EC2 $3.50 also with database storage? I also need S3 for media storage, it the price $0.025/GB for a month?

@devTea we use linode for production, and digitalocean for testing, backup, staging, and API development. AWS is straight noped out of us. It's just too pricy for us

@wowotek Linode for $5 bucks you got everything on the specs? No database rows limitation? Multiple web apps and database?

@devTea hmmm we use plain old vps for everything 😅 so the db is limited to the memory of the vps. We use one server to handle a handful of task like web server, turns out it cheaper that way --According to us.

@wowotek btw how much did you normally charge for a web apps? and how many people is your team?

@devTea what do you mean by web apps??

A small, fun, 3 people. And we are on meeting 😋

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@wowotek for a software from the client

@devTea would the aws free tier not cover it? You can also sign up as Microsoft partner for 75 quid free credit a month for azure and they have a free tier too

@gruff AWS free tier should be enough, I just want to look at all of the options in case I need it

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@devTea S3 is a pain to work out.
Ou have the per gb in storage + the per gb in requests.

So if you use the S3 bucket for a can you then have to account for the traffic coming from it.

@C0D4 any good media storage alternatives then?

@devTea not really. I use S3 for public and private "buckets" along side the SDK's and it works well + has source versioning. Which is awesome when another dev... say... goes and deletes everything, that was a fun day😥

Sadly if you want a controllable price rag at the end of the month, aws is a hard one to get your head around for pricing unless you have an accounts department writing a cheque 😇

On that though, if your using S3 with a EC2 instance, any files you load up from the EC2 using be sdk wouldn't cost to serve, but will probably impact performance if it's quite a lot, as you will be accessing files and pulling them in server side before rendering.

@C0D4 I’ll note that down, thanks

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@-ANGRY-CLIENT- I’ll look at that, thanks

@devTea you're welcome

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