Comment by lelanthran

6 days ago

What's wrong with a single domain and a $5/m VPS that keeps both DB and application on it?

I ran a paid business app on a $5/m VPS. No complaints.

If your $5/m VPS cannot handle some load, then that's when you upgrade it. And, TBH, at the point that your $5/m VPS is at 80% load on a paid product, you're already getting a few thousands of dollars of revenue from it anyway.

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parpfish  6 days ago

if i were just using a dataset to store user settings, i could get by with something tiny.

but my problem is that my fun project ideas are usually some variant of "theres a huge dataset, lets build some fun dataviz on it". which is a problem because a) i need a big db to store that giant dataset and b) the db size doesn't scale with usage, so i can't just put it off until later