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I wonder what that would have cost you on Hetzner, for example. I have a dedicated 20 vCPU box with 64 GB of ram and a terabyte of SSD. Bandwidth is free... and

• eieio 2y ago
  you're right, I probably could have saved some money by using Hertzner! But I'm used to using Digital Ocean, and most of my projects haven't had these scaling problems, and I think changing my stack ahead of launching the project would have been a mistake. If I was planning to keep the site up for long I would have moved, but in this case I knew it was temporary and so toughing it out on DO seemed like a better choice.
  • isoprophlex 2y ago
    Haha yeah of course, the click a button thing is super convenient. I recently had to rebuild my box because I left a postgres instance open on 5432 with admin:admin credentials, and without default firewalls in place it got owned immediately. That would have been less painful on DO for sure.
    • eieio 2y ago
      Yeah I think this was particularly handy for Redis - click a box to upgrade my Redis instance (or add a Replica) while maintaining data with full uptime was really really nice. Painful to use managed redis when I was debugging (let me log in! let me change stuff! give me the IP!! ahhhhh!!!!) but really nice otherwise. A little painful to think about giving that up, although I coulda run a really hefty redis setup on hertzner for very little money!