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Re:Ask HN: Have we screwed ourselves as software engineers? by arinlen on Wednesday May 04, 2022 @09:08PM (#31268121)
> With 64gb ram we have around $50 month on hetzner yes.

A single box on Hetzner is by far not comparable to, say, using a managed service as AWS RDS. It's not even apples to oranges, and more of apples to freshly-squeezed orange juice served by a buttler. Think about it: do you get any form of fault tolerance with your single box?

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Re:Ask HN: Have we screwed ourselves as software engineers? by i_like_waiting on Thursday May 05, 2022 @05:13AM (#31271209)
Thats why I am saying that $50/ month is way off. The price for that would be much higher
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Re:Ask HN: Have we screwed ourselves as software engineers? by arinlen on Thursday May 05, 2022 @07:57AM (#31272189)
> Thats why I am saying that $50/ month is way off. The price for that would be much higher

Ah yes I agree, sorry for not being clearer. I wanted to add on to what you said.

Even though I'm a big fan of Hetzner and a happy customer for years, it's important to know what we're buying and be mindful of what we're not having as a tradeoff.

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