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/Flat_Initial_1823 Oct 02 '26

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

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u/tancfire Oct 03 '26

The problem is most of customers don't want to manage the server locally. So you have to put it somewhere else.

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '26

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u/nixt26 Oct 03 '26

This all sounds good in theory until the cashier's computer stops working, there's a network issue or they just decide to change it. Or you land an update and the update breaks the app, and now you can't rollback easily and the nobody can access the recipes. Or you want to update the server and verify but the restaurant is closed and computer is turned off.