[chris12321]

This made me think of this recent tweet from Nate Berkopec, a developer well-known in the Rails community as a specialist in performance and scaling. https://x.com/nateberkopec/status/1846429195670552635

    If you're starting a new Rails app and live in the EU, the optimal strategy is pretty clear:
    
    Get a 64-thread box on Hetzner for 250 euro a month, allocate 20% of it to the DB, 40% to web, 40% to bg, then  just forget about scaling until you're making money hand over fist.

At a certain point, self-hosting is so much cheaper than PaaS that you can way overprovision your server and not worry about it until you're making serious money.

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Just sucks if you are a service provider and need some kind of SLA to be taken seriously (see the flak Fly.io / Resend are getting) since it's so difficult to find good resources on solid setups. Think for every guide for bare metal there are a few hundred for cloud and both assume a handful of users