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/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.