Re:Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server
by layoric on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @07:02PM
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Exactly, and the performance of consumer tech is wildly faster. Eg, a Ryzen 5825U mini pc with 16GB memory is ~$250USD with 512GB nvme. That thing will outperform of 14 core Xeon from ~2016 on multicore workloads and absolutely thrash it in single thread. Yes lack of ECC is not good for any serious workload, but great for lower environments/testing/prototyping, and it sips power at ~50W full tilt.
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Re:Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server
by eru on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @08:24PM
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Curiously, RAM sizes haven't gone up much for consumer tech.
As an example: my Macbook Pro from 2015 had 16 GiB RAM, and that's what my MacBook Air from 2025 also has.
Re:Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server
by ericd on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @09:43PM
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Ehhh Macbook Pros can be configured with up to 128 now, iirc 16 was the max back then. But I guess the baseline hasn't moved as much.
Re:Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server
by eru on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @12:23AM
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Yes, there has been some movement. But even an 8 fold increase (128/16) over a decade is nothing compared to what we used to see in the past.
Oh, and the new machine has unified RAM. The old machine had a bit of extra RAM in the GPU that I'm not counting here.
As far as I can tell, the new RAM is a lot faster. That counts for something. And presumably also uses less power.