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