I am working on a side project that I intend to launch soon and I am starting to thinking about the "sys" part of the project.
I need pretty basic setup (a db server, a redis one, one for the rails app and a CDN). I am not a sys ops expert but with some work I can set these servers up.
I don't want to use highly managed solutions like heroku, they are too expensive and knowing that I can set up on myself, I want to avoid this high expense.
On the other hand, something in the middle, like AWS has my attention. It would give more flexibility for sure, and I would like to learn it, but their opaque pricing it scares me a bit.
I would like to receive advice for people who can understand my position as a solo developer (with a basic European wage) and who can't afford to spend 100/more euros/month for a project until it pays for itself alone.
I need pretty basic setup (a db server, a redis one, one for the rails app and a CDN). I am not a sys ops expert but with some work I can set these servers up.
I don't want to use highly managed solutions like heroku, they are too expensive and knowing that I can set up on myself, I want to avoid this high expense.
On the other hand, something in the middle, like AWS has my attention. It would give more flexibility for sure, and I would like to learn it, but their opaque pricing it scares me a bit.
I would like to receive advice for people who can understand my position as a solo developer (with a basic European wage) and who can't afford to spend 100/more euros/month for a project until it pays for itself alone.