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

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804 points jryio | 6 comments | 21 Oct 25 20:28 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source | bottom
1. monster_truck ◴[22 Oct 25 00:24 UTC] No.45663555[source]▶
Heroku's pricing is wild. About a decade ago I just about fell out of my chair when I found out the startup I was at was burning upwards of $10k/mo just to generate QR codes (made out of html tables so that they would reliably display in emails). It worked out to something like $0.15/code

The lead who wrote it had never even profiled code before, after some changes we cut it down to ~$0.01/per, but that's still insane.

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2. bapak ◴[22 Oct 25 01:23 UTC] No.45663914[source]▶
What in the world?? Surely there must be something more than "generate a HTML page with 500 elements". Any edge cloud hosting lets you do that for free.
3. system2 ◴[22 Oct 25 08:01 UTC] No.45666088[source]▶
Were you not caching things and using a basic generator? Your comment really doesn't make any sense to me, no offense.
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4. objektif ◴[22 Oct 25 13:39 UTC] No.45668993[source]▶
Sounds like they were generating codes with pure html not images.
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5. system2 ◴[22 Oct 25 23:40 UTC] No.45676547{3}[source]▶
It still doesn't even make sense to generate a lousy html which costs 0.15 each barcode. It shouldn't even cost 0.0001
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6. objektif ◴[23 Oct 25 12:56 UTC] No.45681270{4}[source]▶
Yes ofcourse that part makes no sense :)