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> Easiest fix: moving to EC2 next week. I've wanted to ever since these issues became evident but it's hard to make a good argument from handwaving about 'problems'. Of course, then you need to solve all these problems yourself. That sounds pretty easy, you'll have it done next week no problem! That was sarcastic, but this isn't: good luck, let us know how it goes.
> Of course, then you need to solve all these problems yourself. That sounds pretty easy, you'll have it done next week no problem! I agree with this, actually. I know it's not simple to do your own servers when you're growing. Yet I'd rather improve my existing ops skills a bit than have to setup everything as async APIs (on EC2 anyway). That's the only way I can see that I can solve this.
You're going to discover that a lot of "ops skills" boils down to "do things asynchronously whenever possible". And while nearly any smart engineer can think of the "right" way of doing something, finding the time to do it all is a huge opportunity cost.
That's what the parent is trying to say. It's not that you can't do it; it's that it's a really bad idea to do it, at first.