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Re:Ask HN: Those of you who don't use AWS/Azure/GCP, what do... by rcbdev on Wednesday May 01, 2024 @07:09PM (#40230727)
> the cost of avoiding is higher than the penalty of embracing This is becoming increasingly untrue with the death of ZIRP.

In countries where VC money is much drier, many start-ups begin on VPS' and only move to the cloud when scalability becomes a real issue.

This though, is generally frowned upon by contemporary tech culture.

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Re:Ask HN: Those of you who don't use AWS/Azure/GCP, what do... by edtech_dev on Wednesday May 01, 2024 @11:20PM (#40232366)
> many start-ups begin on VPS' and only move to the cloud when scalability becomes a real issue.

This is the idea, yes. But I am hoping we can scale vertically for a long time.

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