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Use One Big Server (2022)

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343 points antov825 | 1 comments | 31 Aug 25 17:29 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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lewisjoe ◴[31 Aug 25 18:40 UTC] No.45085762[source]▶
I helped bootstrap a company that made an enterprise automation engine. The team wanted to make the service available as SaaS for boosting sales.

They could have got the job done by hosting the service in a vps with a multi-tenant database schema. Instead, they went about learning kubernetes and drillingg deep into "cloud-native" stack. Spent a year trying to setup the perfect devops pipeline.

Not surprisingly the company went out of business within the next few years.

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1. joshmn ◴[31 Aug 25 19:10 UTC] No.45086085[source]▶
This is my experience too—there’s too much time wasted trying to solve a problem that might exist 5 years down the road. So many projects and early-stage companies would be just fine either with a PaaS or nginx in front of a docker container. You’ll know when you hit your pain point.