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Re:Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server by altcognito on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @05:08PM (#45661726)
The weird thing is the relationship between developer costs and operations costs. For startups that pay salaries, $3000 a month is a pittance!*

* The big caveat: If you don't incur the exact same devops costs that would have happened with a linux instance.

Many tools (containers in particular) have cropped up that have made things like quick, redundant deployment pretty straightforward and cheap.

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Re:Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server by andersa on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @05:22PM (#45661890)
The best part is when you start with a $3000/month cloud bill during development and finally realize that hosting the production instance this way would actually cost $300k/month, but now it's too late to change it quickly.
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