Cloud vs. Control: Save a Business by Deploying Global Applications w/ Local Hardware
summary
Argues that infrastructure choices hinge on user profile not tech fashion and gives concrete numbers and a working demo: cites surveys that ~50% of businesses struggle to control cloud costs and 44% blame overprovisioning, notes average SaaS spends ~$1.16M/yr, and builds a Go HTMX containerized app with SMTP, Nginx reverse proxy, Prometheus and Grafana for observability, CI/CD via GitHub Actions, DNS on Cloudflare, deployed as docker compose and a single VM on a GCP VM $15–$20/mo which suffices for low‑traffic portfolios.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:04Infrastructure debate in early dev
- 3:53User needs drive infra
- 9:13Cloud vs on-prem pros/cons
- 13:30Hidden cloud costs
- 17:28Case study: portfolio app
- 22:24Scaling to e-commerce
- 24:52Long-term infra decisions
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