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Use One Big Server (2022)

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343 points antov825 | 2 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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cpursley ◴[31 Aug 25 19:06 UTC] No.45086051[source]▶
Yep, this is why I'm a proponent of paas until the bill actually hurts. Just pay the heroku/render/fly tax and focus on product market fit. Or, play with servers and K8s, burning your investors money, then move on to the next gig and repeat...
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1. fragmede ◴[31 Aug 25 19:13 UTC] No.45086107[source]▶
Yeah, same. Vercel + Neon and then if you actually have customers and actually end up paying them enough money that it becomes significant, then you can refactor and move platforms, but until you do, there are bigger fish to fry.
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2. matt-p ◴[31 Aug 25 20:49 UTC] No.45086956[source]▶
100%. Making it a docker container and deploying it is literally a few hours at most.