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

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804 points jryio | 1 comments | 21 Oct 25 20:28 UTC | HN request time: 0.224s | 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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altcognito ◴[21 Oct 25 21:08 UTC] No.45661726[source]▶
The weird thing is the relationship between developer costs and operations costs. For startups that pay salaries, $3000 a month is a pittance!*

* The big caveat: If you don't incur the exact same devops costs that would have happened with a linux instance.

Many tools (containers in particular) have cropped up that have made things like quick, redundant deployment pretty straightforward and cheap.

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1. andersa ◴[21 Oct 25 21:22 UTC] No.45661890[source]▶
The best part is when you start with a $3000/month cloud bill during development and finally realize that hosting the production instance this way would actually cost $300k/month, but now it's too late to change it quickly.