I wonder if there is some major propaganda push on HN to discourage actual software engineers from ever running their servers. Judging from the comments in this and similar posts, sounds like it is common belief that it's super expensive and a full time job to run bare metal services. AWS and GCP free credits have created a generation of developers that think running a webserver, a webapp and a database is rocket science, and when stuff breaks the whole company might go bankrupt because no one could ever save a corrupted database.
Now a company with thousands of server should probably leverage big cloud offerings, but when we see a post that someone is able to save 10x by going bare metal, and they don't seem to be running a large operation, we should celebrate that, rather than parrot that it is a bad idea, oh god what have you done, no one will ever be able to run servers on their own, it's not worth it.
For comparison, I manage half a dozen servers for clients and I literally do 1 hour of maintenance a year.
Now a company with thousands of server should probably leverage big cloud offerings, but when we see a post that someone is able to save 10x by going bare metal, and they don't seem to be running a large operation, we should celebrate that, rather than parrot that it is a bad idea, oh god what have you done, no one will ever be able to run servers on their own, it's not worth it.
For comparison, I manage half a dozen servers for clients and I literally do 1 hour of maintenance a year.