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Re:You Don’t Need All That Complex/Expensive/Distracting Inf... by mayank on Monday March 11, 2019 @02:50PM (#19361679)
> You can run a startup serving thousands or tens of thousands of customers on a single server, with no micro services, a simple server-side MVC setup and never have a $600 a year dedicated server even break 15% CPU.

This is a gross over-generalization. There are many kinds of problems in computing that can be approached by a startup AND which require large amounts of compute. The soup du jour is machine learning problems.

As for downtime, OP has a perfectly valid point. If you're building a B2B application, the customer has already taken a risk on you. If you go down in the middle of a busy workday, even for 30 minutes, you can be damned sure that someone at your client is getting some heat for taking that risk rather than going with $BIG_CO.

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Re:You Don’t Need All That Complex/Expensive/Distracting Inf... by mattmanser on Monday March 11, 2019 @02:55PM (#19361742)
Not really, most people hate $BIG_CO, they're invested, they're invested in your trendy brand, your lovely UI vs the lotus notes style $BIG_CO.

The early adopters are going to give you slack.

As for the tiny number of startups solving ML business problems, compared to the thousands of web apps launched daily on product hunt, if your USP is computing power and special tech, then obviously this advice does not apply.

Edit: You should really disclose you work on AWS when discussing this sort of stuff

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Re:You Don’t Need All That Complex/Expensive/Distracting Inf... by hombre_fatal on Monday March 11, 2019 @03:19PM (#19361937)
> Edit: You should really disclose you work on AWS when discussing this sort of stuff

Yikes. Is this irrelevant attempt to disarm them why we have these obnoxious "disclaimers" all over HN?

It's an absolutely meaningless gesture.

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Re:You Don’t Need All That Complex/Expensive/Distracting Inf... by mayank on Monday March 11, 2019 @03:01PM (#19361792)
I don't work at AWS any longer, not that it's relevant.
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