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Once you have millions of dollars in hosting costs, you can rewrite your app in rust. Most likely, though, your app is never going to cost more then $5 per mont
by amadeuspagel 6y ago
Once you have millions of dollars in hosting costs, you can rewrite your app in rust. Most likely, though, your app is never going to cost more then $5 per month.
- mwcampbell 6y agoAnother way of looking at it though is that by using a more efficient language and framework, you can grow farther on a single server, and that fundamentally simplifies things.
- Isinlor 6y agoYou should grow faster by focusing less on implementation and more on your core business competence. In old school PHP share-nothing architecture you can just throw more servers at it and call it a day until you need to start scaling databases.
- couchand 6y agoBut one misplaced comma and your whole site goes down.
- adrianN 6y agoI think you underestimate the costs of rewriting an app that has millions of dollars of hosting costs.
- throwaway894345 6y ago$5/month is a single teeny tiny EC2 instance (or if you’re on premise you can pretend that you’re saving money on hardware by ignoring maintenance costs). I think you’re exaggerating.
- amadeuspagel 6y agoI'm not. Most projects are never going to see any significant traffic. In fact, most projects are never going to get finished and launched at all.