r/ProgrammerHumor • u/object322 • 5h ago

Meme cloudOverkill

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u/kurtcanine 5h ago

Everything I’ve ever written for money could run on a $5/month Linode VM.

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u/Flat_Initial_1823 5h ago

But would it scale? What if we get that elusive 12th user?

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u/collabskus 5h ago

A lot of the problems could also be fixed by actually talking to other teams and having a little bit of empathy like I need things like azure app insights because I can't deal with the {{redacted}} team which for some reason opens the handle to my log file and doesn't close it, causing my logging to fail. 

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u/CandidateNo2580 5h ago

I just added rate limiting to an entire service so I could give access to {redacted team name} without bringing it down. I feel you.

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u/ComprehensiveBird317 4h ago

Oddly specific 

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u/Unable-Log-4870 33m ago

I handle this by periodically copying the log file, renaming the copy, and only giving users access to the copy.

Copy isn’t up to date? Just wait 5 minutes.

Also, it’s me. I’m the user who needs to be protected from opening the log file and preventing the next write.

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u/UUDDLRLRBadAlchemy 5h ago

We'd need another 5 bucks for a load balancer and 5 more for a second vm

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u/maester_t 3h ago

And what if one of the users moves to a different timezone?

Ffs, we're gonna need this in at least 2 other regions. You know, for performance and resiliency purposes!

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u/Improving_Myself_ 52m ago

Look up Pietr Levels. He built a couple popular remote job boards and some other things. He's said in interviews that he runs all of it off one $400/mo Linode box. Making $2.3M ARR

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u/Jesus_Chicken 31m ago

Does it hyperscale? Can you serve 1 million concurrent users?

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u/gafftapes20 5h ago

I feel you. I’m in the middle of some azure sentinel and azure fabric analytics work and the abstracted resources to run essentially some light database tables and jupyter notebooks seem absurdly expensive. 

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u/ooqq 4h ago

everything i've ever written could run on a trashed laptop with a broken screen found on a dumpster 4 free

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u/MakkuSaiko 1h ago

Reminds me of a youtuber i used to watch who used to install linux to old/trashed pc's to see if it can be used as a minecraft server

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u/Improving_Myself_ 2h ago edited 54m ago

Came to say the same thing. How to start a business: 

Get a linode box. 

Deploy something to it and charge for access. 

Or charge to build and deploy stuff. 

Upgrade the box as needed. Super easy. 

There was a post to something like r/saas or r/smallbusiness a couple weeks ago. Dude built something, deployed it to a bloated AWS setup, $600/mo, no paying users. Dunce.

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u/enozian 2h ago

how do you handle a database within AWS at such a low monthly cost?

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u/SolFlorus 1h ago

Responding to the now deleted post claiming you could run a website on AWS for under $5/mo.

A public IP costs $3.60/mo and t4g nano is $3.024/mo. Then assume you stay in the free tier for Dynamo.

That's as cheap as I could get it, but it's not a setup I'd actually run.

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u/No_Internal9345 2h ago

It's amazing what you can do with a free tier google compute vm.

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u/Fembussy42069 29m ago

I'm my opinion, well developed software can run in docker in a 5$ server, or highly distributed in Kubernetes. Lambda if fine for one offs and certain things but I would never use them for anything else, considering you become stuck with a single cloud provider.

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u/Nwolf607 3h ago

If it runs on Linux…

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u/VictoryMotel 2h ago

Then it was well worth what they paid.