Poor Man's Deployment

Taun

last month

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  Exo

  last month

  Depends on your exact requirements but you can certainly get a cheap VPS to run pre-built docker images with payload and nextjs, personally I pay 15 Euro for mine and rarely use 10% of RAM and CPU so 1Gb with 1 virtual core should be enough for a simple application.

  
  

  
  

  Vultr offers cheap servers and gives you 250$ credit to try it out www.vultr.com or, if you are new to payload, try their free cloud options (free until June, afterwards depends on your project, starting at 35 bucks but will save you quite a bit of work as backups etc are all included)

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  Taun

  last month

  Ok cool, thanks a lot Tim.

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  Exo

  last month

  any time 🙂

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  Mark | Omniux

  last month

  Hi Taun. Bit of a shameless self plug but I wrote an article on Deploying on GCP for free

  https://discord.com/channels/967097582721572934/1090311570522902548
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  Taun

  last month

  Nice, sounds good, I'll try that. Thanks Mark.

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  Alessio 🍣

  last month

  For low revenue websites, I can also recommend railway!

  
  

  currently have 2 low/no revenue websites there and am paying 0$ a month for pretty great performance (anything <5$ a month won't be billed)

  
  

  
  

  if the server doesn't have high loads that's probably the cheapest option you can find.

  
  

  
  

  once it gets more visitors & higher load, then a VPS would prob be the cheaper option

  
  

  
  

  or that 😄 Am wondering: Do you know if GCP has a cost control nowadays? Something where I can set a limit of idk, 500$ a month, and for anything over that, it'll pause or shut down my projects?

  
  

  
  

  I always wanted to try it, but am worried about unexpected high loads driving me to bankrupcy

  
  

  
  

  e.g. a ddos attack which doesn't get blocked

  
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  Mark | Omniux

  last month

  We've got budget limits setup that notify us whenever we approach certain thresholds, like 50%, 75%, and 90% budget usage in a month. Additionally, you can set the maximum compute power and number of instances that can run at one time in Cloud Run. So we set it to 2 just in case anyone decides to try to spam the login 😄

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  Alessio 🍣

  last month

  mh that's the thing - limits just notify you. Worried something happens while I'm asleep or away

  
  
  

  maximum compute power and number of instances
  

  That sounds more interesting though! Can you limit network ingress & engress as well?

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  Mark | Omniux

  last month

  yup! We run everything through Google load balancer for granular control

  
  

  
  

  https://cloud.google.com/run/docs/securing/ingress
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  Taun

  last month

  Rad. To clarify -using Google you can prevent attacks by setting a limit?

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  Mark | Omniux

  last month

  Well it won't prevent attacks. But it will reduce the potential cost overhead you would incur if you were attacked. If you want to protect against attacks, add a Load balancer and possibly also DDos protection with Google Cloud Armor. Ultimetly there is no way to stop attacks, but you can limit the total potential damage they may cause to the point where an attacker would most likely give up

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  Taun

  last month

  Poor Man's Deployment

  
  

  
  

  Ok cool. Yea I mean prevent losing a lot of money from an attack by setting a limit. That's simple to implement with Google?

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  Mark | Omniux

  last month

  yeah it's pretty easy 🙂

  
  

  
  

  you can handle most of it from the Google Cloud Run Container page