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We are paying $5000 per month to GCP and $1000 per month to Amazon, we've 300 users paying $300 a month each. Stack : Ruby, Go, PHP (for some integration), Java
by xstartup 9y ago
We are paying $5000 per month to GCP and $1000 per month to Amazon, we've 300 users paying $300 a month each. Stack : Ruby, Go, PHP (for some integration), JavaScript (Stuck on Angular v1)
- awinder 9y ago7% on hosting revenue sounds like a great accomplishment but what's relatively a good ratio to look at?
- brianwawok 9y agoSo what is normal in the SaaS world? I am at 5% today, and I try but not focus on costs. Around 5% it seems hard to care TOO much...
- leesalminen 9y agoWe're at ~10% and are just starting to care. We're looking at some infrastructure changes to bring us closer to 4%.
- brianwawok 9y agoWell it makes sense to care more as you grow for sure. Shaving 6% off a 10k a month company is $600 which is nice but not a game changer. Shaving 6% off a $1 mil a month company is $60k a month, which is a nice bonus for someone...
- junker37 9y agoWe're just over 2%, all in AWS costs.
- brianwawok 9y agoWhat revenue range (5 fig, 6 fig?)
- bkanber 9y agoAdding a data point: we're at 1.5% for 6 figure monthly revenue.
- brianwawok 9y agoThat seems very good. Are you on a popular cloud (AWS/GCE/Azure), colocated, or running your own servers?
- bkanber 9y agoAWS
- kasbah 9y agoWhile, as others have pointed out, that with 100k non-paying users the $1,600 figure makes more sense. Your example still makes no sense to me, what are you _actually_ doing with all that server power?
- rpedela 9y agoCan't speak for xstartup, but if the dataset is 100+ GB then EBS, S3, etc start to cost real money. I host an application on AWS for a single customer with 10 active users which costs about $1500/month because there are several TBs of data and the nature of the application needs a lot of CPU and RAM. In other words, it depends on the use case and data size.
- graphememes 9y agoWhat? I have a 16TB raid that only costs 800$ a month. You should look into how you store that information.
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- rpedela 9y agoOr stop making assumptions with very little information. That is really my point, but I didn't think it needed to be said explicitly.
- cdelsolar 9y agoI've seen burnt coffee that was roasted less than this.
- xstartup 9y agoYep, that's right. We've not investigated cloud costs at all. If only, I get to have some calm days when my hair is not on fire. Maybe I just suck at development or need to hire really good dev ops team. For now, just single developer.