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

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804 points jryio | 2 comments | 21 Oct 25 20:28 UTC | HN request time: 0.494s | source
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swanson ◴[21 Oct 25 21:07 UTC] No.45661720[source]▶
I guess I'm not quite understanding why you need six staging servers provisioned at $500 a pop? And if you need that because you have a large team...what percentage of your engineering spend is $3000 vs $100k+/yr salaries?

Especially when I got look at the site in question (idealist.org) and it seems to be a pretty boring job board product.

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gregsadetsky ◴[21 Oct 25 21:15 UTC] No.45661825[source]▶
6 staging servers: main, dev, and any branches that you want to let other (non tech people) QA.

As for the staging servers, for each deployment, it was a mix of Performance-M dynos, multiple Standard dynos, RabbitMQ, a database large enough, etc. - it adds up quickly.

Finally, Idealist serves ~100k users per day - behind the product is a lot of boring tech that makes it reliable & fast. :-)

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1. TechDebtDevin ◴[22 Oct 25 00:29 UTC] No.45663580[source]▶
you're telling me 100k people are looking for jobs in non-profits on your specific site daily? Are you sure you don't have a bot/scraper problem?
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2. PyWoody ◴[22 Oct 25 01:14 UTC] No.45663863[source]▶
Honestly, 100k/day sounds low for Idealist. It's the go-to place for volunteer and non-profit work, which is quite a considerable market.