Good improvement, but 50x overpayment until a rethink is also pretty wild.
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At least, the "fear" factor (will the new system work? what bugs will it introduce? how much time will I spend, etc.) pushes a lot of folks to accept a very big price differential aka known knowns versus unknowns...
It's understandable really. It's just that once you've migrated, you almost definitely never want to go back :-)
...but this CX33 "server" being discussed - is a 6 bucks a month VPS [0]
Normally you build a prototype on laptop and move it out to fat hardware when it outgrows that. Here they started with 3k infra and then later realized it runs on toaster. Completely back to front.
Maybe they just never iterated on a local version and nobody developed an intuition for requirements. Switched straight to iterating on a nebulous cloud where you can't tell how much horsepower is behind the cloudfunctions etc.
Presumably there is a perfectly reasonably explanation and it's just not spelled out, it just seems weird based on given info
Almost VPS-sized! haha
(I really wish we could support phones as the ultimate self-hosting device)
But this is also one of those things where, almost invariably after you do it, you think "Oh man, we should've done this 3 years ago!!! It just ended up taking a day and everything's working beautifully"