When I started setting up the cloud infrastructure for poketto.me, I didn’t give much thought to costs. I thought it was such a small project that it just wouldn’t matter. I launched a #CloudSQL (MySQL) database with pretty much the default settings and was quite happy with it – until I checked the billing dashboard a couple of days later and realised that I was already spending almost €4 per day on the database alone. 120 euros per month just for a few MySQL tables? That couldn’t be right.
💰But even after scaling it down to the bare minimum, I still wouldn’t get the costs below €40 or €50 per month.
🔥 What did I do? I switched to #Firebase and am still running on their 'free' tier. Even if storage size and latency requirements demand scaling up, it would only cost a few euros a month – not over 100 euros.
Oh, and, how did the migration go? Well, more on that tomorrow! 🚀