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0 pointssoutherntofu2y ago0 comments

> I don't think it's that hard to a learn a little bit of AWS.

It's a lot more complicated than anything reasonable about deploying a webapp. Any shared hosting solution or deployment platform (think fly/shuttle) will be cheaper and easier to reason about. Even selfhosting on a rented VM or dedicated server and configuring auto-updates and maintenance windows will be much easier.

By going to netlify/AWS you are now tying the destiny of your app to two megacorps, doubling the risk of downtime (and cloud uptime is certainly not as good as dedicated) and other bugs.

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nemothekid2y ago

Have you used AppRunner? I'm not talking about using AWS RDS, EC2 setting up IAM profiles or anything. AppRunner is fairly new and it's, IMO, simpler than Fly.io for webapps. Likewise, I don't think renting a VM or dedicated server is an option if you just want to deploy your app - if you don't want to think about deployment, networking, SSL provisioning, or failover and just your business logic, the appeal of Fly.io, netlify and Apprunner is just having an endpoint where you can 'git push' and having those platforms take care of everything.

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0 pointssoutherntofu2y ago0 comments

> I don't think it's that hard to a learn a little bit of AWS.

By going to netlify/AWS you are now tying the destiny of your app to two megacorps, doubling the risk of downtime (and cloud uptime is certainly not as good as dedicated) and other bugs.

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nemothekid2y ago

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