Re:A Beginner's Guide to Scaling to 11M+ Users on Amazon's AWS
by developer2 on Tuesday January 12, 2016 @11:33AM
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10 users? You want a $5 DigitalOcean, a $10 Linode, or similar. A single server can handle a lot more than 10. There's a trend on HN obsessed with high availability and scalability that makes it sound like every website needs to be extremely resistant to any failures. The majority of websites need no such thing. If you're spending more than $50/month on a very small website, you are more than over-engineering the requirements.
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Re:A Beginner's Guide to Scaling to 11M+ Users on Amazon's AWS
by miseg on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @04:24AM
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Thanks. It is on a $10 Linode. But currently uses Amazon Cloudfront to server most assets, which is overkill. It costs like $0.50, but it's the extra engineering complexity that I'd like to avoid.
I agree with you.