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Advanced Web Machinery

Serverless architectures may no longer be the default choice for most applications. Modern dedicated servers offer massive capacity (192 cores, 3TB RAM) at reasonable costs (~$5k/month), eliminating traditional concerns about elasticity and scale ceilings. For most services, a single powerful server or primary-secondary setup provides sufficient reliability without the complexity of distributed systems. The trade-offs favor simpler architectures: no eventual consistency, easier debugging, local reproducibility, and fewer logical errors. Tools like NixOS enable infrastructure-as-code rigor while maintaining simplicity. Serverless remains valuable for bounded, infrequently-changing workloads, but actively-developed products may benefit from exploring single-server alternatives.

I'm changing my mind about serverless

192 cores, 3TB RAM ~ $5k/month -&gt; This is amazing that so much compute can just be rented if the card is full enough! 🤓 And cannot wait 10y when will be like remember when this was alot! 😝

this title is a bit misleading. author really means he’s changing his mind on hosting via cloud provider.
i got excited about a potential article about why serverless was the snake oil AWS sold and how it’s less expensive and better DX to write APIs and deploy to a container

there is certain tradeoff, especially for companies - you pay for cloud, you dont need to worry about plenty of stuff. And many managers prefer this responsibility avoidance. And for many, its “easier”, just a few clicks and you have some virtual service running, without the hassle of doing some apt-get, yum or rpm or whatever.
On the other hand, there are COSTS. And significant. The more visits you have, you usually pay more. The more users, hits, data … whatever, you pay more. Wanna add faster disks? You need to upgrade your CPU plan and pay more … If you own your machine, your costs are relatively constant. But you have to invest some time in security, upgrades and patches, and maintaining the whole thing.
If you can afford do spend $5k monthly on infrastructure, you should have solid infrastructure engineeer by now to take care of the stuff.

What do you think of VPS? To me it’s a valid middle-ground between serverless and a fully dedicated server.