> The webapp runs on two identical DigitalOcean servers... The database is a hosted Postgres instance also on DigitalOcean.
They're only spending $69/mo total at DigitalOcean, and it sounds like their scaling isn't limited by computational power but rather by operational concerns. So, I'm not entirely sure what the backend language has to do with the costs here.
If you're trying to draw a cost comparison between languages, then the take-home from this writeup is that 55k monthly users is small enough that the backend language doesn't make a difference in costs.
Side note, this kind of transparency is always really nice to see!
They're only spending $69/mo total at DigitalOcean, and it sounds like their scaling isn't limited by computational power but rather by operational concerns. So, I'm not entirely sure what the backend language has to do with the costs here.
If you're trying to draw a cost comparison between languages, then the take-home from this writeup is that 55k monthly users is small enough that the backend language doesn't make a difference in costs.
Side note, this kind of transparency is always really nice to see!