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by yibg 1817 days ago
Every posting about one of the larger scale companies have to have a “why does it cost x / take y engineers to run this thing?” comment. It’s like everyone at google / Facebook / Amazon are too stupid to realize they can run the entire thing out of a server in the basement maintained by 5 engineers.

If it was so simple to host Instagram for peanuts I wonder why no one has done it.