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cloud infrastructure was never the limiting factor.

• duxup 4y ago
  I think it was in a way. Having an old school style IT structure was a pain. Maintaining your severs, networking gear if needed, OS updates ... on and on. For very small teams (maybe not the well funded start ups) that could eat a lot of time and trouble.
  • fijiaarone 4y ago
    You used to be able to scale up to millions of users in less time than you could memorize all the AWS acronyms, and with lower hardware and bandwidth costs to boot. It’s true that it would take a couple weeks to order all the hardware and a couple more to install and configure it, but that’s about the same amount of time you spend writing all the terraform and Kubernetes scripts and configuring cloudformation and VPCs and IAMs.
    • oblio 4y ago
      Yeah, but then you wouldn't have high availability to the same level, for example. I mean, you could, but then tack on another 100 non-AWS acronyms to your on-premise solution.
• nrb 4y ago
  Looking back 20-30 years, it absolutely was a primary limiting factor. Massive capital outlays were required to serve the kind of traffic you can get with the free tier of modern cloud infra providers.
  • bluGill 4y ago
    That depends on what you are doing. Serving static websites needs a great pipe, but doesn't need much CPU.
    • techdude3 4y ago
      Yup, just gotta lay good pipe.
  • goodpoint 4y ago
    Absolutely not.
  • jejeyyy77 4y ago
    not really, i built websites w hundreds of thousands/millions of users on a VPS that cost me like $30/mo.