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Escaping surprise bills and over-engineered messes: Why I left AWS


Frustrated with AWS's complexity and cost risks, I switched to NearlyFreeSpeech for its prepaid model, ensuring financial control while keeping hosting simple and flexible.

Sometimes they're refunded, like when the story hits the front page of Hacker News and Reddit, but most times not. If you feel your site is attack-prone and you are primarily concerned about costs, we encourage you to maintain a low account balance to limit your exposure.” - Blog Post Technologies - Express, Pushover Pull Requests - Part 1 Notes - NFS doesn't offer services like Lambdas.

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