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Oh wow. Read it but somehow missed that. Well I'll leave the foot in mouth comment for posterity.
by andrewclunn 10y ago
Oh wow. Read it but somehow missed that. Well I'll leave the foot in mouth comment for posterity.
- lucb1e 10y agoI missed it as well. For future readers: > free web services are not like free software. If your free software project suddenly gets popular, you gain resources: testers, developers and people willing to pitch in. If your free website takes off, you lose resources. Your time is spent firefighting and your money all goes to the nice people at Linode.
- lqdc13 10y agoIt depends on the service, but I think the vast majority of free products are over engineered in terms of using cloud services. It costs something like $60 a month in maintenance fees for 1 VPS. Double that and you are safe from hardware outages. As a dating site for example, you don't need S3, cloud formation, etc.
- andrewclunn 10y agoOh good apparently owning up to a mistake and leaving it up should also get downvoted. Gotta love this community.
- sleepychu 10y ago> Please resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html