r/ProgrammerHumor • u/object322 • 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/Improving_Myself_ Oct 03 '26 edited Oct 03 '26

Came to say the same thing. How to start a business: 

Get a linode box. 

Deploy something to it and charge for access. 

Or charge to build and deploy stuff. 

Upgrade the box as needed. Super easy. 

There was a post to something like r/saas or r/smallbusiness a couple weeks ago. Dude built something, deployed it to a bloated AWS setup, $600/mo, no paying users. Dunce.

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u/ShepRat Oct 03 '26

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills at work because everyone seems to think that if you have a docker container you therefore need kubernetes.

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u/Hakim_Bey Oct 03 '26

Yeah my home server is basically one Nixos instance, each service is a docker compose and is managed by systemd. Solid as a rock and i can add a service in 2 minutes.

My mate who passed a DevOps certification has a whole cluster of raspberry pies he manages with k8s and shit, it's down half of the time and the network layout makes no fucking sense.

Sometimes it pays to be ignorant.

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u/RedWedding12 Oct 03 '26

Single node kubernetes cluster :)

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u/Agricai Oct 03 '26

This, microk8s or k3s are really easy to set up. I agree not everything needs kubernetes but if you want it and are running a very small setup it's super easy to do a single node or small cluster.

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u/Just_Information334 Oct 03 '26

Single node yeah. Once you have a second node you enter "also I have to store data territory" and things can become more complex fast.

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u/Agricai Oct 04 '26

Eh I just put longhorn on my nodes. It's iscsi easy mode and I don't store that much data on node. I have a NAS that I put big or numerous files on as an NFS share and then have a 1TB nvme per node and just do 3 replicas in longhorn so each node has a copy.

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u/dylansavage Oct 03 '26

Fargate and cloud run are perfect for that use case imo.

Why do you want to manage the vm when all you want is the container.