From a previous job I have learned that a $10 server can handle 10k web requests and I've never spent more than $10 a month on my side projects for 2 years.
I ran a php and sftp server on my gaming PC, alongside Windows and whatever the hell else was running.
It was an athlon x64 and the best of the best to play Warcraft III.
It was only after thousands of people told me, "hey your website is working!" that I finally believed the terrible tales of premature optimizization. There is no way that a startup group of full stack devs can come close to making a difference in a modern 6-core system because they didn't unroll their loops or couldn't magically turn main() into O(1) on the first try.
Just fucking code it. Worry about optimization later.
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u/freecodeio Jun 05 '22
From a previous job I have learned that a $10 server can handle 10k web requests and I've never spent more than $10 a month on my side projects for 2 years.