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Why does HN run on a single $100 instance?
Is it just for clout to say they have a high-traffic app that runs on a lean stack? When big news events like the OpenAI drama happen the site gets bottlenecked. I can understand if it's an app with simple operations not wanting to roll a k8s cluster, but why not something managed like Heroku or Digital Ocean where you can autoscale or scale up with a slider?
Is it just because M5 hosting requires them to provision in advance?