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Discussion on: Make a Linux dev server for less than 50$/life 😱

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Gijo Varghese

nice clickbaity title!!

It's fun to create one, but...

Never Use it for Production

  • AWS, Google cloud has free vms which has much better specs (cloud.google.com/free/)
  • A $5/month DigitalOcean is much faster, and only costs $60 for a year
  • Cloud providers like Google automatically upgrade your hardware with latest CPU without any downtime
  • You can only build the server for $50, you need to pay for the internet usage and electricity
  • Upload speed for normal internet connections are way slow, hosting providers speed are way fast
  • Cloud providers like DO, Google, AWS use high-speed networks powered by Fibre cables
  • $1/month extra, you can get backups
  • What if there is a hardware failure? How will you keep your site up? Order another raspberry pi?
  • Horizontal and Vertical scaling will be difficult
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Sarthak Sharma

It’s a Dev Server for small teams to test their apps locally on one network ( If you have read the article you can tell 😁). Obviously this can’t be used for production and in that case all your reasoning is valid.

This article is for beginners.

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Gijo Varghese

Even for development, I won't recommend this

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Sarthak Sharma

Yeah, it’s fine no problem. I respect your recommendations but still working fine for me so gonna use it as long as I can.