Re:Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server
by hamdingers on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @05:13PM
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The "platform" software runs on is just other software. If your prod environment is managed kubernetes then you don't lose much if your staging environment is self-hosted kubernetes.
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Re:Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server
by odie5533 on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @05:15PM
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Load balancers, IAM roles, kubernetes upgrades, postgres upgrades, security settings, DNS records, http routes... there's a lot that can go wrong and makes it useful to have a staging environment.