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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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swanson ◴[21 Oct 25 21:07 UTC] No.45661720[source]▶
I guess I'm not quite understanding why you need six staging servers provisioned at $500 a pop? And if you need that because you have a large team...what percentage of your engineering spend is $3000 vs $100k+/yr salaries?

Especially when I got look at the site in question (idealist.org) and it seems to be a pretty boring job board product.

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1. ygouzerh ◴[21 Oct 25 21:14 UTC] No.45661809[source]▶
Yes, everyone forget to compute man-days in the cost calculation
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2. tensor ◴[21 Oct 25 23:13 UTC] No.45662978[source]▶
This thinking definitely drives enterprise products, and is exactly what makes it hard for small companies. "You can pay a lot simply because you clearly can afford to" doesn't lead to great products, even if it often does lead to profitable companies.