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

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804 points jryio | 2 comments | 21 Oct 25 20:28 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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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rikafurude21 ◴[21 Oct 25 21:00 UTC] No.45661636[source]▶
The cloud has made people afraid of linux servers. The markup is essentially just the price business has to pay because of developer insecurity. The irony is that self hosting is relatively simple, and alot of fun. Personally never got the appeal of Heroku, Vercel and similar, because theres nothing better than spinning up a server and setting it up from scratch. Every developer should try it.
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1. tempest_ ◴[21 Oct 25 21:14 UTC] No.45661807[source]▶
It is way more than that though.

It offloads things like - Power Usage - Colo Costs - Networking (a big one) - Storage (SSD wear / HDD pools) - etc

It is a long list but what doesnt allow you do it make trade offs like spending way less but accept downtime if your switch dies etc etc.

For a staging env these are things you might want to do.

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2. brandon272 ◴[22 Oct 25 00:27 UTC] No.45663567[source]▶
"Self hosting" may actually be referring not to hosting your own on-prem hardware, but to renting bare metal in which case the concerns around power usage, networking, etc. are offloaded to the provider.