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		marsdepinski on Sept 4, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Costs of running a Python webapp for 55k monthly u... During the dotcom days, we hosted sites like this on a home dsl connection on a single desktop machine and got people to pay for that.

ianhowson on Sept 4, 2020 [–]

Hey, I still do this today for non-revenue-generating services.

Pretty much every bigcorp I've ever worked for has some crucial service on a box under someone's desk...

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