I run a similar image host with many times the traffic of picsum as well as daily DDOS attempts. This is pretty much the approach I've chosen. (I don't use S3, but a similar setup.)
My infrastructure is much simpler than this (CDN in front of Varnish? What the hell software do you think they're using for the CDN?) and my total hosting costs are about $150 a month since recently upgrading the server.
Seeing articles like this just reaffirms for me: The people who write these articles are not necessarily experts.
My infrastructure is much simpler than this (CDN in front of Varnish? What the hell software do you think they're using for the CDN?) and my total hosting costs are about $150 a month since recently upgrading the server.
Seeing articles like this just reaffirms for me: The people who write these articles are not necessarily experts.