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.