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> Why on earth would a startup waste money like that? Because the cost of hosting a typical startup, even on GCP, is trivial compared to a single engineer's sa
by discoursism 9y ago
> Why on earth would a startup waste money like that?
Because the cost of hosting a typical startup, even on GCP, is trivial compared to a single engineer's salary.
- foobarbazetc 9y agoIt really depends. When we were starting out keeping our hosting costs low with dedicated servers kept us afloat. We actually make an effort to cut our hosting costs while expanding capacity pretty much every year now because Intel keeps making better chips.