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Comment by alberth | Hacker News Reader

There's a value curve for infrastructure, I'll use an analogy...

  Low Cost                                           High Cost
  ==============================================================
  FARM     WHOLESALER     GROCERY     RESTAURANT     DOORDASH    
  BUILD    CO-LOCATION    HETZNER     AWS            VERCEL

While it's not a perfect analogy, in principle it holds true.

As such, it should come as no surprise that eating at a restaurant every day is going to be way more expensive.

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AWS is more of high-scale cook-your-own pizza restaurant where you can't see the bill until the end, and you often have to mop the floor and wash the latrines yourself too. And washing the latrine costs money too of course, but you don’t wanna get salmonella, right?

That's were my analogy isn't perfect.

There's different tiers of restaurants.

There's the luxury premium restaurants (Michelin star rated, like AWS), but there is also local dinners that arguably have phenomenal food too (maybe someone like DigitalOcean/Linode).

Exactly.

I hadn't seen your comment when I wrote this, below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45616366

I love your farm-to-table grid: works for everyone not just HN commenters. And putting DOORDASH on the right is truer from cost perspective than the metaphor I'd used.

For HN, I'd compared to a pricing grid (DIY, Get Started, Pro, Team, Enterprise) with the bottom line that if YAGNI, don't choose it.

Your grid emphasizes my other point, it's about your own labor.

I love that, I may steal it.

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