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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: 0s | 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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nimbius ◴[21 Oct 25 21:17 UTC] No.45661835[source]▶
you can literally buy a used dell desktop that matches the spec for hetzner (8 core, 32 gigs of ram) for under 500 USD. Why wouldnt you just do that?

As cloud marches on it continues to seem like a grift.

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SchemaLoad ◴[21 Oct 25 21:44 UTC] No.45662116[source]▶
Because that used desktop is subject to power outages, internet outages, the cleaners unplugging it, etc. Datacenters have redundancy on everything.
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1. ngold ◴[23 Oct 25 06:28 UTC] No.45678805[source]▶
I'm probably wrong, but this argument always cracks me up.

It used to be called 3 laptops a power scrubber and a backup battery. If you want to go self hosting things. If you were fancy you had two servers.