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Written by nytpu on 2025-01-21 at 00:44

Virgin startup bragging about Scaling™ their basically fully static website and serving 500,000 requests a month (0.1 req/s) for only $1,000/mo on AWS, vs. the chad static website serving 100 req/s on a salvaged netbook that costs 50¢/mo in electricity to run

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Written by nytpu on 2025-01-21 at 00:45

Flashbacks to people whining about Fedi instances fetching link previews causing their blogs to go down because the traffic was… 0.5–1 requests a second sustained for 60–120 seconds

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Written by drevil on 2025-01-21 at 00:47

@nytpu hey now let's not be mean, serving media files is hard, it's not like they make caches for this stuff or something

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Written by Softwarewolf on 2025-01-21 at 00:48

@nytpu mfw when they talk about scaling a service up and it doesn't involve dragons

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