what would you need to know as part of the profiling
what’s taking the time
Obvious things
1 - your server is out of ram (free -g; ps aux --sort -rss)
2 - your server is serving a ton of requests (what tho)
3 - database slow
4 - database full
5 - db out of connections (are you using connection pooling?)
6 - poor choices inside whatever php you’ve written
7 - internet between scaleway / DO
That said… all this is optimized to be as cheap as possible. Value your time, use bigger servers, and go figure out if you’ve created any value. If you’ve created value, hosting costs can be optimized.
Silicon Valley is not a monolith. Nor are investors. (Ditto the media.)
I’m skeptical of Humane, but maybe lets let someone use it before declaring the entire idea is a failure.
This whole post reads like jealousy driven whining.