↳ In-reply-to » Basecamp Details 'Obscene' $3.2 Million Bill That Prompted It To Quit the Cloud An anonymous reader shares a report: David Heinemeier Hansson, CTO of 37Signals -- which operates project management platform Basecamp and other products -- has detailed the colossal cloud bills that saw the outfit quit the cloud in October 2022. The CTO and creator of Ruby On Rails did all the sums and came up with an e ... ⌘ Read more

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci You are right, its not just economics that are and have been driving many folks and companies to the so-called proverbial “Cloud”™ – What is it then? Convenience? Scale? Flexibility? All these points in my experience are kind of bullshit. Part of me thinks we need to go back to our root and rethink how we’ve evolved software and services over the years. It shouldn’t ever cost hundreds of thousands to run basically what amounts to “project management” software.

There’s sin infamous guy that proved this once where he ran something that scaled to stupid amounts of scale on a few bucks a month. I forget what the site/service was though… Anyone? 🤔