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📣 Vishal19111999

How expensive are fully managed hosting services as compared to VMs?


I am building an app that consumes a significant amount of resources per day per user.

Currently, the app is in the free alpha stage and already consuming $1 per user per month.

I am scared this would make the app unaffordable when I add more features.

How cheaper would it be for me to shift to an AWS/GCloud VM compared to Railway?

Thanks for the help

  👤 controversial97 Accepted Answer ✓
To me "managed hosting" means that the people you pay deal with things like applying operating system updates, security updates and providing functional databases.

If you are willing to be a sysadmin and keeping up with promptly updating software when some new vulnerability is found, backups etc then you can get a dedicated server in the ballpark of 2TB disk, 4 cpu cores for $45 a month.

I havn't used AWS, google cloud, Azure etc due to the horror stories of people accidentally running up huge bills. I prefer fixed price per box per month.