It is. With 10k MRR it represents 0.15% of the revenue. Having the whole backend costing that much for a company selling web apps is like it’s costing zero.

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jvuygbbkuurx 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

You probably don't make 10k MMR on day one. If you make many small apps, it can make sense to learn how to run things lean to have 4x longer runway per app.

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mlyle 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The runway is going to be your time and attention span, not $10/mo.

I don't know what you value your time or opportunity cost as... but the $10/mo doesn't need to save very many minutes of your time deferring dealing with a resource constraint or add too much reliability to pay off.

If resource limitations end up upsetting one end user, that costs more than $10.

	▲	jampekka 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		This assumes you have to spend any time or attention worrying. 1GB is plenty of memory for backend type stuff. And most VPSs allow increasing memory with a click of a button and a reboot.

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r0fl 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Overspending for the sake of overspending is not smart in life or business.