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Looks interesting. But why do you recommend such large 20/40 usd droplets for running on digital ocean? Surely one would scale pretty far by simply using a dedicated postgres db - and a small app container?

Or does the backend do some heavy lifting I'm missing?

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You are absolutely right, I'll change this.

We made this doc when we were focusing on syncing data, which was much more intensive.

Though in the future, we plan to offer a proxy that would funnel your external requests and would require more processing power. The advantages of a proxy are that we can automatically authenticate requests, handle retries & rate limits, monitor & alert, etc.

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