5 ms·
Roughly $10,000 would get the server I need for 2 years barring any major surge in users or traffic. The reason why I need a server is because I'm going to be t
by voidfiles 16y ago
Roughly $10,000 would get the server I need for 2 years barring any major surge in users or traffic. The reason why I need a server is because I'm going to be transcoding video. If it is a commodity server then it still needs to be a big one.
- pmjoyce 16y agoHave you looked at zencoder.com or similar?
- rubinelli 16y agoYou can apply for a Y-Combinator-like program in your area. But wouldn't it be a lot less risky to use the money from sales and subscription to pay for, say, one of Linode's heavy-iron (8-20GB) instances month to month? It seems to be a relatively small premium. And have you thought about letting your clients (or at least the desktop clients) do the transcoding for you?
- voidfiles 16y agoYea YCombinator and the like would be nice, but many of them require full time participation, and that's understandable, I just can't afford to leave m job, two kids and a wife. Funding base on subscription is a good idea as well but I still need a bare minimum of investment to float me trhough development. Also I would investigate usig an encoding service, but it costs almost as much as renting server space.
- rlpb 16y agoI make it about $6000 to run an extra large high CPU (8 virtual core) EC2 instance 24/7 for a year, and you won't need a large capital outlay. Would this work for you? Alternatively with a $2000 up-front payment Amazon will give you the same thing for $4000 total.
- voidfiles 16y agoThat's interesting, I haven't done the math for all the different VPS providers / EC2, but yea that is what I am looking for just a beefy box to do some transcoding.