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Discussion on: How I host my personal site for ~$1USD/Month

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Chathula Sampath

You can do this without any cost by using vercel !

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DavidJames

Right, but for $1/mo you basically force yourself to learn AWS. Which is useful in a lot of other ways, you know?

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Chathula Sampath

yes agree with that :D

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DavidJames

I checked Vercel and it seems like that could be useful too...

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Dakota Lewallen

I think it's contextual. If you have either people that know AWS or can pay for those people, go the AWS route. If you don't, services like Vercel or digital ocean are great to get products to market. Then you can get people/money.

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Dakota Lewallen

If I remember correctly, Vercel is built mainly on AWS. You absolutely can get a similar result with it, but after a point they will charge you at a higher rate than if you did it yourself. I have nothing against Vercel or people using it, but being able to build from the source will always be cheaper in the long run. The cost is upfront with having to learn what I detailed in this post.