There's a additional point: on 4 cloud instances, a x5 performance improvement means you have only one machine to manage instead of several, and then your ops costs are way smaller.
There's a big number of companies who have between 4 and 20 machines for serving Python, Node or PHP apps and spend a lot of efforts managing them with overkill solutions like kubernetes or whatever when it could be a single machine or two using more frugal languages.
There's a big number of companies who have between 4 and 20 machines for serving Python, Node or PHP apps and spend a lot of efforts managing them with overkill solutions like kubernetes or whatever when it could be a single machine or two using more frugal languages.