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$40 a month on a dedicated box will cover you for your first million users.

No you aren't running tests because you will be locked in to aws and your cloud computing bills will eventually bankrupt you.

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$40 a month and $400 of my time a month, that is the issue. At some point the lines meet and it is worth the time to save a $10000 DO bill for hight traffic I am sure. But that is a later problem.

It's a later problem you can't solve! You cheaped out in the short term and will face ludicrous long term costs.

And not just you, it's a core part of cloud computing's monetization model.

Additionally, if anything goes wrong with your Digital Ocean account, Digital Ocean will not help you. So you are running a high risk.

DO runs your app pretty much as is with few modifications. Think npx next init; git commit; git push; so it ain’t hard to migrate. You end up doing the same stuff you would have done on day 1.

So in essence, you want to use cloud providers UNTIL you need to scale? Isn’t that the opposite way round? Doesn’t it make it sound ridiculous, seeing as though the cloud providers were meant to help you scale?

Hard to answer in absolutes. Depends on use case.

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