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Regarding (2), how are you funding the initial phase of the project? After all, you're offering 30 GB of storage - twice Google.
by Fej 7y ago
Regarding (2), how are you funding the initial phase of the project? After all, you're offering 30 GB of storage - twice Google.
- z0mbie42 7y agoStorage is very cheap. I did not expect to reach Google's scale during the next month so currently we are bootstrapped and rely on some AWS credits :)
- nerdinary 7y agoSo you're building the next Google... on Amazon. Gotcha.
- fock 7y agoNot sure what kind of money you got, but for me S3-storage costs about 0.6USD/30GB*month. Multiply this by 100 and you got a bill of 60USD/month - which is not much if you are a cash-bloated startup but not really sustainable for a bootstrapped, non-exponential (that's the point when you're talking about challenges like climate change. stop growing) business, which want's to survive on user donations, once you reach several thousand users. If you got the really cheap stuff from online.net, I recommend you don't raise any hopes in Google-scale availability...
- contrasti 7y agoAWS is not acceptable choice if you want to stand to your values, see e.g.: https://gizmodo.com/amazon-is-aggressively-pursuing-big-oil-as-it-stalls-ou-1833875828 https://gizmodo.com/amazon-is-aggressively-pursuing-big-oil-... In france you have OVH - the invest heavily in solar energy and build datacenters with low energy consumption in mind. That might be a better choice (not working for them).
- DyslexicAtheist 7y agoOP should talk to Octave Klaba who is very approachable and a big supporter of the FOSS spirit. maybe he can cut you a good price. I'd certainly try him (add him on LinkedIn and pitch it ... or oles at ovh.net )
- z0mbie42 7y agoThank you for the hint! I'll certainly do it!
- z0mbie42 7y agoYou are right, but for the beta it was really the cheaper card in my hand because I didn't had to setup 10 server to assure data resiliency etc...