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It would be cool if they would show the range of costs ($$$) for each step of growth. My fear is that if you do everything by the book the costs correlate with
by edvinasbartkus 11y ago
It would be cool if they would show the range of costs ($$$) for each step of growth. My fear is that if you do everything by the book the costs correlate with growth.
- boothead 11y agoIt would also be interesting to see that as a rough $$$/user. It would be very interesting to see how much you need to be making from each user to cover hosting.
- chucky_z 11y agoI did this migration recently and we're spending about 1.75 cents per user. We could do it for cheaper, but we've recently had some issues that were absolutely trivial to resolve with AWS, that would have been very difficult with our previous hosting provider.
- Roodgorf 11y agoThis hits on something in the calculation that I feel is very hard to factor in, the cost of development time. Sure, there are plenty of ways to do these things cheaper on a hardware/software cost per user basis, but more often than not I've found that we can get changes out so much faster in AWS that you're easily saving thousands in developer time, which would seem to more than cover the extra cost to me.
- snaily 11y agoPer month, I take it?
- chucky_z 11y agoCorrect.
- beachstartup 11y agoi run an infrastructure startup. the rule of thumb is once you hit $20-99k/month, you can cut your AWS bill in half somewhere else. sites in this phase generally only use about 20% of the features of aws. the other rule of thumb is once you hit six figures/month, you're probably spending someone else's money, are locked in to their stack, or just don't really care to begin with, so there's no point in telling/selling you otherwise.