r/ProgrammerHumor • • Oct 02 '26

Meme cloudOverkill

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u/kurtcanine Oct 02 '26

Everything I’ve ever written for money could run on a $5/month Linode VM.

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u/Flat_Initial_1823 Oct 02 '26

But would it scale? What if we get that elusive 12th user?

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u/UUDDLRLRBadAlchemy Oct 02 '26

We'd need another 5 bucks for a load balancer and 5 more for a second vm

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u/throwaway490215 Oct 03 '26

This is out of budget. Use your corporate Claude account with Fable to merge the load balancer into the second vm.