The year is flying by
2025-05-18:
It’s been a minute. I started messing around with terraform and server-less tech to host my bs. What I’ve discovered is that for the cost of a nat-gateway I could just have a project box thats always-on. Even with the cost of storage, it’s still cheaper with Ris than a Nat-gateway and server-less tech. I haven’t spent much time on tech projects since my last post honestly though. I’ve mostly been playing R.E.P.O. with a team from Discord. So right now my online empire is still running on an ec2 in docker containers. This is quite cost efficient, but still requires regular maintenance. Going serverless scales better but is not cheaper on the onset. For my work I need to explore more use of terraform as it relates to EKS, but the EKS is a minimum of $70 a month for the control plane and I’ve heard estimates on reddit that it’s minimum footprint is around $400 a month which is WAY Over my $50/mo budget for my aws hosted bs. This weekend I did some house cleaning on my subnets and fixed some long standing issues. I then set about creating a health check lambda that can be used to check the health and access of my websites resources. I still need to integrate it into my existing lambda terraform project, but that will be for another weekend.