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Leaving AWS | |
March 29th, 2018 | |
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Earlier this week I got a notification from the AWS console that | |
my billing alarm level had been reached. I'm glad I set it because | |
there's no other way I would have know that I was running up an | |
incredibly expensive bill. | |
Over the weekend I was experimenting with Nextcloud and linked an | |
AWS S3 volume as an extra share. Something went wrong and the | |
syncs were failing, but constantly retrying to download data. At | |
least, this is what I now believe is the root cause. At the time | |
I figured it was one of my public sites getting abused. | |
I went digging around in AWS to see if I could figure out who the | |
culprit was, but that was in vain. AWS is a labyrinth of excessive | |
overengineering, techno-babble, and the worlds worst | |
documentation. I can find no information about where the charges | |
are coming from beyond "bandwidth". | |
It's 2 days later and my bill is over $300. I logged a support | |
ticket asking Amazon what the hell is happening, but screw it. I'm | |
done. I don't need AWS shit, it was just the idea of fast | |
performance that brought me there. My sites are all static. | |
I unlocked my domains and I'm transferring them to Namesilo. I'll | |
save down some of the crap sitting in cold storage, re-clone my | |
static sites on the gopher.black pi, add in nginx and tell my | |
router to forward port 80. | |
The cloud can suck it. |