I don't claim to know everything, neither should you. We all learn constantly.
And I'm a student (not a full-time developer) and live far, far, far from Silicon Valley and everything I've built so far was either small things (like simple websites and school projects) or big projects (like ranking algorithm for a search engine) that were to be deployed on local servers (i.e. machines we bought and could physically touch - no fancy cloud computing stuff as you put it). I had never used ec2 before, and didn't know transferring data between multiple ec2 instances is fast and free to the point that you can deploy such a vital part of your server application on another machine (I knew it was free between your own ec2 machines, but I didn't know it's fast and free between all those millions of ec2 instances that are running in a region and aren't own by you).
I don't feel ashamed for not knowing that. The good thing about HN is that while most people here are extremely knowledgable, they rarely laugh at you when you ask something that's trivial (to them).
I think my comment got misunderstood. Infact I praised you that you lot of things. Only constant in life is learning.
Even though you are not full time but you still know more than average full timers.
And I'm a student (not a full-time developer) and live far, far, far from Silicon Valley and everything I've built so far was either small things (like simple websites and school projects) or big projects (like ranking algorithm for a search engine) that were to be deployed on local servers (i.e. machines we bought and could physically touch - no fancy cloud computing stuff as you put it). I had never used ec2 before, and didn't know transferring data between multiple ec2 instances is fast and free to the point that you can deploy such a vital part of your server application on another machine (I knew it was free between your own ec2 machines, but I didn't know it's fast and free between all those millions of ec2 instances that are running in a region and aren't own by you).
I don't feel ashamed for not knowing that. The good thing about HN is that while most people here are extremely knowledgable, they rarely laugh at you when you ask something that's trivial (to them).