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		intricatedetail on Jan 24, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I got pwned by my cloud costs If you are not a VC backed corporation you must be insane to run anything on a "cloud". Why not rent a dedicated server from OVH or others where you can actually control costs and pay 10-100 times less?

Nextgrid on Jan 25, 2022 [–]

Because experience getting shit done using boring tools doesn't translate well to a future career in a VC-backend company wrangling Terraform & YAML files.

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