I'm interested in hosting a website for a small business (< 100 users / month) and I wanted to try going 'serverless'. I've read that using Amazon S3, Lambda and DynamoDB is a way to set this up, by hosting the front-end on S3, using Lambda functions to access the back-end, and storing data in DynamoDB. I'll need to run a script on page load to get data to display, save user profiles/allow logins, and acccept payments using Stripe or Braintree.
Is this a good situation to use this setup, or am I better off just using EC2 with a LAMP stack? Which is better in terms of cost?
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It is a perfectly good solution, and will probably cost you nothing at all to host on AWS - literally pennies a month. I host several low traffic sites this way and it works well.
The only caveat would be, since your traffic is so slow, almost every time someone hits a page, if it needs to make any back-end calls, those lambda functions will likely need a 'cold-start', which may introduce a delay and cause the page to load a bit slower than if it had more traffic that tended to keep the lambda cache 'warm'.
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