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Re:Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server by matt-p on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @07:18PM (#45663011)
I bet there's a big "burns through our SSDs faster" spreadsheet column or similar that caused it to be disabled.
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Re:Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server by gchamonlive on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @07:30PM (#45663100)
Maybe. Or maybe it's an arbitrary decision.

Many won't enable swap. For some swap wouldn't help anyways, but others it could help soak up spikes. The latter in some cases will upgrade to a larger instance without even evaluating if swap could help, generating AWS more money.

Either way it's far-fetched to derive intention from the fact.

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