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		altcognito 60 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo ser... The weird thing is the relationship between developer costs and operations costs. For startups that pay salaries, $3000 a month is a pittance!* * The big caveat: If you don't incur the exact same devops costs that would have happened with a linux instance. Many tools (containers in particular) have cropped up that have made things like quick, redundant deployment pretty straightforward and cheap.

andersa 60 days ago [–]

The best part is when you start with a $3000/month cloud bill during development and finally realize that hosting the production instance this way would actually cost $300k/month, but now it's too late to change it quickly.

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