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>It's f* insane to pay more than $400 per month to run a blog. No matter the traffic. It's insane if your site isn't being monetized at all and downtime do
by chrsstrm 10y ago
>It's f* insane to pay more than $400 per month to run a blog. No matter the traffic.
It's insane if your site isn't being monetized at all and downtime doesn't cost you anything. What you spend on infrastructure should be a formula of risk vs. reward taking into account availability vs. lost revenue for downtime or visitor bounce due to errors, speed, etc. Site owners will happily pay whatever the cost is as long as they are not losing sales and their net income is positive.
- user5994461 10y agoWordpress.com is more available, more stable and more dependable than a hacky setup on AWS you made yourself. Not to mention that guys who can do that kind of custom setup are going for $150-300k a year nowadays. And it's gonna take man*months of work and maintenance.
- chrsstrm 10y agoI am one of those guys who can do that kind of custom setup for large scale high volume sites and the actual setup is not as complicated as it sounds. The maintenance is literally a day a month, if that. You can even automate it if you like. And if you have me on a maintenance retainer then you are not paying the equivalent of my $X00K per year salary. All of my clients who don't have their own corp DevOps team like having someone they know and can call at any time with issues instead of submitting a support ticket and waiting. Again, it all comes down to what percentage of our income do we feel comfortable spending on infrastructure? It has nothing to do with oh my - $X00 or $X000 per month sounds expensive.