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Re:Tech Layoffs Are Feeding a New Startup Surge by nrb on Thursday February 23, 2023 @01:03PM (#34914078)
Looking back 20-30 years, it absolutely was a primary limiting factor. Massive capital outlays were required to serve the kind of traffic you can get with the free tier of modern cloud infra providers.
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Re:Tech Layoffs Are Feeding a New Startup Surge by bluGill on Thursday February 23, 2023 @01:28PM (#34914440)
That depends on what you are doing. Serving static websites needs a great pipe, but doesn't need much CPU.
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Re:Tech Layoffs Are Feeding a New Startup Surge by techdude3 on Friday February 24, 2023 @12:30AM (#34921202)
Yup, just gotta lay good pipe.
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Re:Tech Layoffs Are Feeding a New Startup Surge by goodpoint on Friday February 24, 2023 @09:43AM (#34924945)
Absolutely not.
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Re:Tech Layoffs Are Feeding a New Startup Surge by jejeyyy77 on Friday February 24, 2023 @10:28AM (#34925412)
not really, i built websites w hundreds of thousands/millions of users on a VPS that cost me like $30/mo.
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