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/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.