Majority of web apps could just run on a single server
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Majority of web apps could just run on a single server
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#2Hard to judge when I have no idea of how many servers are used by anything I access.
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#3A $5 VPS, with almost any app, can handle the front page of hacker news. If I remember correctly I'd even venture to say hacker news runs on a one or two core box. It should be the standard
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#4Three machines get you availability that one machine can't.
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#5We use k8s at $JOB for literally no reason other than some engineer decided he wanted to learn k8s.
It's the worst, I don't even get to see my server logs because "that would mean giving you access to the entire thing". I'm not a k8s person but surely that has to be missing something.
We could literally make do with a cloudflare 5$ plan and have left to work with. With better integration, and better DX.
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#6Yeah, a 4$/month VPS can handle thousands of queries per second: https://alicegg.tech/2023/02/06/4dollar-vps
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#8We use k8s at $JOB for literally no reason other than some engineer decided he wanted to learn k8s. It's the worst, I don't even get to see my server logs because "that would mean giving you access to the entire thing". I'm not a k8s person but surely that has to be missing something. We could literally make do with a cloudflare 5$ plan and have left to work with. With better integration, and better DX.
That's not a k8s thing. It's an idealistic DevOps thing. You'd probably deal with that in alot of places.
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#9I can confirm. I've had quite a few projects that made it to the front page of HN and handled the traffic like cake. All of them ran on 5$ digital ocean droplets.
I accept some projects are more resource expensive than others, but majority of the time you can get away with a bit of asynchronous responses + scheduler/queue to spread the load horizontally over time.
Unpopular opinion: I blame the new age devops culture that made cloud app deployments unnecessarily complicated with k8s and cool new tech (that'd get them high profile jobs.) I've never come across a devops person who'd say "Hey, that sofware is too simple to prematurely scale for sudden spikes of irrational amounts of traffic, so why not just deploy it on a cheap vps?"
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