Escaping Surprise Bills & Over-engineered Messes: Why I Left AWS - Travis Bumgarner
Posted Thu Jan 30 2025I love building side projects. They've been a way to push myself and explore new ideas and technologies. Each site has needed hosting. I started my hosting journey with WordPress. I moved on to raw Linux servers and finally ended up on AWS. Hosting on AWS felt like a badge of honor, but it also felt like a ticking time bomb of complexity and cost.
Surprise Bills
I've heard horror stories of accidental bills. They ranged from a few hundred to several hundred thousand dollars...
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