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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: 0.215s | 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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jamestimmins ◴[21 Oct 25 21:07 UTC] No.45661714[source]▶
This could be the premise for a fun project based infra learning site.

You get X resources in the cloud and know that a certain request/load profile will run against it. You have to configure things to handle that load, and are scored against other people.

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1. YouAreWRONGtoo ◴[21 Oct 25 21:25 UTC] No.45661922[source]▶
All it means is that the cloud doesn't work like a power socket, which was the whole point of it.

Things like Lambda do fit in this model, but they are too inefficient to model every workload.

Amazon lacks vision.