Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server

Re:Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server by tbrownaw on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @05:36PM (#45662033)

And all of that takes, what, a week? As a one time thing?

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Re:Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server by jcynix on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @06:21PM (#45662464)

Takes less than a day, because most of the stuff is scriptable. And for a simple compute node setup at Hetzner (I.e. no bare metal, but just a VM) it takes me less than half an hour.

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Re:Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server by tbrownaw on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @09:32PM (#45663972)

But if you're that familiar with it, the overpriced turnkey stuff wouldn't look so tempting in the first place.

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