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$200/mm for a 10MM ARR company. Can you add more info here. What sort of app/company are we taking about here? Genuinely curious
by social_quotient 7y ago
$200/mm for a 10MM ARR company. Can you add more info here. What sort of app/company are we taking about here? Genuinely curious
- hadlock 7y agoFor production, $200/mo. Dev/testing seem to always cost 3x+ what production servers cost. One was an IT management/automation SAAS company (I think they were $450/mo), another was backoffice SAAS company (I think they were $1000/mo but they were also hosting for an independent dealer of their SAAS so it was two production systems, and 10 years of tech debt), third is a live video consultancy SAAS that outsourced their video to a third party api service. None of those are actually $200/mo but realistically in the ballpark of under $1000/mo. When I converted the company (which included 40 engineers and probably 12 qa engineers) to the cloud I got my hands slapped for converting the QA/test datacenter (not production) and the cost went from $3200/mo on bare metal to $6500/mo but we were able to squeeze that down to $4200/mo running about 10 always-on test/pre-prod environments and 2-3 on-demand test environments. This is all enterprise space stuff where the utilization is low but the value of the service is high. If you're doing facebook for dogs and trying to turn a profit on ad revenue from high utilization it's probably not as effective/realistic.
- brianwawok 7y agoB2B generally has a lot more cost in support / handholding, and B2C has much more cost in servers. The extreme examples are a B2B app with 100 or less total users vs an imgur clone with millions of users