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

The situation is interesting, and self-hosting is indeed a very nice solution often. However, I wanted to comment on the article itself - it seems to be very heavily AI-edited. Anyone who has spent time with LLMs will easily see it. But even that's not the issue; the main issue is that the article is basically a marketing piece.

For example, the "Bridging the Gap: Why Not Just Docker Compose?" section is a 1:1 copy of the points in the "Powerful simplicity" on the landing page - https://disco.cloud/

And this blog post is the (only) case study that they showcase on their main page.

You're absolutely right! Here are some three points why:

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I'm kidding :-)

Our library is open source, and we're very happy and proud that Idealist is using us to save a bit of cash. Is it marketing if you're proud of your work? :-) Cheers

There's a tone issue.

Marketing should be marketing and clearly so. Tech blogs are about sharing information with the community (Netflix Tech blog is a good example) NOT selling something. Marketing masquerading as a tech blog is offputting to a lot of people. People don't like being fooled with embedded advertising and putting ad copy into such pieces is at best annoying.

https://netflixtechblog.com/

Nah, people are stupid. Including me. It's all marketing. Netflix's tech blog is marketing to engineers to want to go work there and to promote their product. If you want to see things though the lense that all advertising is bad, you'll make your life miserable because it's all advertising in one way or another.

What you've done is taken something I've written, redefined a core term in a way I obviously didn't mean, and then told me I'm wrong because of your redefinition.

When you put it that way, you make me sound like an ass. Is that how I'm coming across? What did I redefine? I'm refuting the fairytale where some content is pure and untainted by marketing. Netflix writes posts that make engineers want to work there and people think, "hey, that's smart!" That’s marketing.