Reevaluate costs

[ogallagher]

Now that I have a few months’ billing gone by I should update my rough estimates with actual values. Of course, reality has proven to be more expensive, and I should cut back some services for the near future.

[ogallagher]

June 2020: $95.93

db              = 14.54
elasticache     = 48.96
web servers     = 31.43
rt 53           = 01.00
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total           = 95.93

July 2020: $112.36

db              =  14.95
elasticache     =  50.59
web servers     =  45.82
rt 53           =  01.00
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total           = 112.36

[ogallagher]

August 2020: $109.73

db              =  14.95
elasticache     =  50.59
web servers     =  43.13
rt 53           =  01.00
misc            =  00.06
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total           = 109.73

misc this month was data transfer. Note that web servers, as always, refers both to the S3 server instances and the load balancer to route traffic.

[ogallagher]

October 2020: $113.03

Elasticache continues to be a heavy cost compared to the other items, probably because it is not allowed any downtime.

[ogallagher]

May 2021: ???

Migrating to dreamhost, currently with shared (not dedicated) resources and no cache server.

• determine whether I can now remove the DNS hosted zone from route 53 now that I’m using dreamhost name servers

[ogallagher]

As of #115 I pay 470 USD for the 3 year plan starting 2024-02-24 and ending 2027-02-24. This is equivalent to ~ 14 USD/mo.