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Use One Big Server (2022)

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343 points antov825 | 3 comments | 31 Aug 25 17:29 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | 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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Aeolun ◴[01 Sep 25 10:44 UTC] No.45091528[source]▶
The moment I sign up for a PaaS the bill hurts. I can never get over the fact I can get 1000x more compute for the same price, never mind that I never use it and have to set everything up myself. I’ll just never pay to lock myself in to something so restricted. My dedicated server allows me to do anything I want or need.
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1. cpursley ◴[01 Sep 25 11:35 UTC] No.45091855[source]▶
If you enjoy playing with servers instead of shipping features, enjoy!
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2. Aeolun ◴[02 Sep 25 05:52 UTC] No.45099551[source]▶
That’s only true if you still have to learn how to deploy to a server. I have the opposite problem. I need to learn how to deploy to these wonky services, and it never seems to transfer from one to the other.
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3. cpursley ◴[02 Sep 25 09:49 UTC] No.45100905[source]▶
I moved from Heroku -> to Render.com in a day, then later Render -> Fly in a couple hours because everything was already dockerized. I’ve never really have to think about my servers on any of these providers, they just run.