News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server. Parent comment

Re:Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server by adastra22 on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @08:07PM (#45663396)
When building distributed systems, service degradation means you’ll have to provision more systems. Cheaper to provision fewer systems with more RAM.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server by eru on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @08:28PM (#45663573)
It depends on what you are doing, and how your system behaves.

If you size your RAM and swap right, you get no service degradation, but still get away with using less RAM.

But when I was at Google (about a decade ago), they followed exactly the philosophy you were outlining and disabled swap.

[ Parent | on HN ]