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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: 0.328s | source
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turtlebits ◴[31 Aug 25 18:52 UTC] No.45085891[source]▶
The problem is sizing and consistency. When you're small, it's not cost effective to overprovision 2-3 big servers (for HA).

And when you need to move fast (or things break), you can't wait a day for a dedicated server to come up, or worse, have your provider run out of capacity (or have to pick a different specced server)

IME, having to go multi cloud/provider is a way worse problem to have.

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matt-p ◴[31 Aug 25 18:54 UTC] No.45085909[source]▶
There are a number of providers who provision dedicated servers via API in minutes these days. Given a dedicated server starts at around $90/Month it probably does make sense for alot of people.
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1. winrid ◴[01 Sep 25 15:41 UTC] No.45093628[source]▶
A $20 dedicated server from OVH can outperform $144 VPSs from Linode in my testing, on passmark.