Pieter Levels says he retired his 13-year-old Linode VPS nicknamed Tommy, which had hosted all his 100+ sites. His public notes show the broader shift: in April 2026 he said his sites get 4 billion requests a year but cost only $244/month to host on his own VPS; in November 2026 he said total business expenses were down to $300/month. His earlier stack documentation described a single large VPS costing about $384/month, originally on Linode, with no Docker/Kubernetes.
Levels has long advocated a simple single-VPS, vertical-scaling setup rather than containers or serverless. Moving off the old Linode box aligns with his cost-cutting and simplification push, especially after security issues and maintenance overhead with exposed VPS ports and PHP updates.
Pieter Levels says he shut down his 13-year-old Linode VPS, nicknamed Tommy. His public notes back up the move: in April 2026 he said his sites get 4 billion requests a year and cost $244/month on his own VPS, and in November 2026 he said total business expenses were down to $300/month.
Same story as the previous post: Levels says he shut down the long-running Linode VPS called Tommy that had hosted his sites for over a decade.
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CGood morning, it's Friday — six oh two in the morning.
CThe internet's best-known independent founder just turned off the server where it all started.
CPieter Levels posted on X that he killed a 13-year-old Linode server called Tommy.
MHe named his server Tommy.
CHe's a one-man startup factory — Nomads.com, Remote OK, Photo AI. Tommy hosted more than a hundred of his sites for over a decade.
MHis own notes say those sites do four billion requests a year, and the server cost two hundred forty-four dollars a month.
CThat's the Levels philosophy: no Kubernetes, no serverless. One big box, upgrade it when you need to.
MOne big box sounds fine until it becomes the single point of failure.
CFor thirteen years, apparently it wasn't. He's now on a different box and says total business expenses are down to three hundred a month.
MThe post he quoted was Cory Zue on X shutting down a sixteen-year-old Linode after it powered his first site, first side project, first revenue app.
CIt's developer nostalgia, but it's also a real argument: complexity costs money.
MHe ran actual businesses on infrastructure a startup would call primitive.
CAnd he kept the margins. Fine. Next, EV land.
MRivian raised its annual delivery forecast after record production at its plant in Normal, Illinois.
CThat's from The Pantagraph. But the same report says Rivian still posted substantial losses.
MSo the plant is humming, and the balance sheet is not.
CRight. And they declined to give the local paper any detail about local operations.
MThat's the part that jumps out to me.
CI think deliveries are the leading indicator. If they're making more, they can eventually spread the cost.
MMy take: eventually only works if the cash runway lasts.
CThat's the entire EV industry in two lines.
MThey're not all this unprofitable. But Rivian's in the middle of it.
CIn autonomy, a post on X claims Waymo's next-generation robotaxi will be built on Toyota's bZ4X electric SUV.
MThat's unverified. The account says it, but Waymo hasn't confirmed.
CIf it's true, that's a real platform bet — a purpose-built EV, not a modified car.
MFor now it's still a rumor.
CToyota and Waymo have history on autonomous projects, so the rumor is plausible.
MPlausible is still not an announcement. We'll wait.