While this advice is good for micro-SaaS, it’s only good for micro-SaaS. If you’re at any other kind of startup, your revenue is expected to grow by double digi

While this advice is good for micro-SaaS, it’s only good for micro-SaaS. If you’re at any other kind of startup, your revenue is expected to grow by double digits. Your little startup will become large, and fast. That hacked together single server is going to bite you way sooner than you think, and the next thing you know you’ll be wasting engineer hours migrating to something else. Me personally, I’d rather just get it right the first time. And to be honest, all the cloud services out there have turned a complex cloud infrastructure into a quick and easy managed service or two. E.g., why am I managing a single VPS server when I can manage zero servers with Fargate and spend a few extra bucks per month? A single server with some basic stuff is great for micro-SaaS or small business type of stuff where frugality is very important. But if we shift the conversations to startups, things change fast.