Cloud hosting cheaper than web hosting

[u0206397]

For web application hosting and web services?

Is it cheaper to get $5/month web hosting for some PHP script hosting

OR

AWS/GCP/Azure hosting?

Will be only light traffic like proof of concept or demo apps.

Also open to server less options like Lambda.

If someone spam hit my web app or service, means I will go bankrupt with thousand dollar bills?

 

[davidktw]

For web application hosting and web services?

Is it cheaper to get $5/month web hosting for some PHP script hosting

OR

AWS/GCP/Azure hosting?

Will be only light traffic like proof of concept or demo apps.

Also open to server less options like Lambda.

If someone spam hit my web app or service, means I will go bankrupt with thousand dollar bills?

For light services go with VPS, for large services cloud gives better architecture. AWS allows for cost notification if it exceed your limit.

Cloud is not necessarily cheaper depends on what you measure as cost.

 

[lampPC]

For light services go with VPS, for large services cloud gives better architecture. AWS allows for cost notification if it exceed your limit.

Cloud is not necessarily cheaper depends on what you measure as cost.

it is important to setup cost notification and if possible throttle the bandwidth usage automatically.

I had a mistake before of allowing 10 gbs connection on a virtual server. The server was hacked and allow a surge of traffic amounting to more than $10,000 of traffic. From then on, I learnt from the mistake. The provider at that time is Internap.

 

[Asphodeli]

Try using DigitalOcean or vultr's lowest end offerings ($5/mth for DO and $2.50/mth for vultr)

If you are willing to spend more time doing some refactoring of your existing code, it is possible to run your PHP scripts for free on Google App Engine