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Re:Exercise has 2M users but no money in the bank by Lionga on Friday September 06, 2024 @03:04PM (#41468839)
Move everything to Hetzner (or the like) at double the capacity that AWS has on average and you still spend about 10% of what you spend on AWS.

That is how stupid costly AWS is and 99% of people using AWS are wasting money like there is now tomorrow.

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Re:Exercise has 2M users but no money in the bank by deisteve on Friday September 06, 2024 @03:31PM (#41469028)
Problem is Hetzner has such stringent user verification its tough to get hosting on there.

You don't even need to use Hetzner, I'm actually quite surprised they are spending 2k on DB. For the env isolation i understand they need ec2 but...

it shouldn't cost anywhere that amount, for instance I have 3 million users on a $40/month digital ocean VPS with just Django + Postgres and I have far more reads and writes.

for env isolation you could spin up a $5/month VPS and shut it down when idle

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Re:Exercise has 2M users but no money in the bank by Lionga on Friday September 06, 2024 @06:11PM (#41470080)
Sure Hetzner ist just one example. Many provides sell at about 5 to 10% of AWS prices.
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Re:Exercise has 2M users but no money in the bank by KomoD on Sunday September 08, 2024 @04:46AM (#41479073)
Eh? It's not "tough" to get hosting there... It's super easy if you use legit details and live in a country they are allowed to do business with.
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Re:Exercise has 2M users but no money in the bank by rospaya on Saturday September 07, 2024 @04:35PM (#41476315)
> 99% of people using AWS are wasting money like there is now tomorrow

Why do you think that is? Are that many people that dumb or are there other reasons they use managed cloud?

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