Modern hardware is fast, if you cannot fit more than 100 users (not even 100 concurrent users) on a single $50/month server, you're doing something very very wrong.
Even repurposed 10 years old fairphone[1] can handle more than that.
[1]: https://far.computer
Thank you stranger.
olayiwoladekoya•1h ago
lesuorac•53m ago
Twitter famously had a "fail whale" but it didn't stop the company from growing. If you have market demand (and I guess advertising) then you can get away with a sub-optimal product for a long time.
paulnpace•43m ago
daitangio•15m ago
alexfoo•11m ago
Agreed, but there's still an element of survivorship bias there. Plenty of companies failed as they couldn't keep up with their scaling requirements and pushed the "getting away with a sub-optimal product" for too long a time.
jstanley•1m ago
arter45•15m ago
If it’s just “sign up any time you want and go”, yes, it can go that way.
If it’s “join that waiting list” or “book a call” (for KYC purposes or whatever), you have a buffer.
If user count is more or less constant (most internal websites, for example), it’s probably not an issue.
And so on.