Getting to that scale on the side is a nice problem to have. Maybe it shouldn't be on the side anymore.
A cheap micro container is $5 a month. A cheap dedicated server can be had for $20 a month. Budget is not the issue here.
Re:From Node to Ruby on Rails
by true_religion on Thursday December 16, 2021 @02:36PM
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An expensive dedicated server can also be had for $1300 a month.
Scaling vertically can take you a long long way before you actually have to start separating services.
Ok? That's a non sequitur. No one is forcing you to buy a dedicated server for $1300 a month which probably has the same performance as $250 worth of separate boxes. And separating services isn't what we're talking about here. It's adding horizontal processes across machines instead of on one machine.
People who pay for those extra boxes? Not everybody has your budget (especially when they're building things themselves, on the side, so they aren't even paid).