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Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server

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804 points jryio | 3 comments | 21 Oct 25 20:28 UTC | HN request time: 0.729s | source
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tempest_ ◴[21 Oct 25 20:54 UTC] No.45661573[source]▶
The cloud has made people forget how far you can get with a single machine.

Hosting staging envs in pricey cloud envs seems crazy to me but I understand why you would want to because modern clouds can have a lot of moving parts.

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1. j45 ◴[21 Oct 25 20:57 UTC] No.45661608[source]▶
Cloud often has everyone thinking it's still 2008.
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2. tempest_ ◴[21 Oct 25 20:59 UTC] No.45661624[source]▶
With some obvious exceptions there isnt much you cant run on a 200 Core machine wrt web services.
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3. j45 ◴[22 Oct 25 20:24 UTC] No.45674688[source]▶
Of course.

The default thought to use the cloud because it's more performant though for even the most basic to intermediate loads instead of the hardware directly is what I'm referring to and what the article is referring to.

It's very easy to pay for cloud services per transaction at greatly inflated prices than what it actually costs, and how many cpu cores it actually uses at any given time.