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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: 0.285s | source
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Havoc ◴[21 Oct 25 21:25 UTC] No.45661917[source]▶
Good improvement, but 50x overpayment until a rethink is also pretty wild.
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gregsadetsky ◴[21 Oct 25 21:37 UTC] No.45662042[source]▶
From having talked to many folks, migrations are psychologically very, very, very very hard.

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 :-)

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1. atonse ◴[22 Oct 25 13:24 UTC] No.45668768[source]▶
Exactly. For most people, even at $500/month, yes it might be painful but is still dwarfed by the cost of engineer time. And it's also one of those "let's kick the can down the road, everything's working right now, do we want the headache of potentially destabilizing things"

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"