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Let's say it is $2k/mo. I also run a small business. And when things are growing it's easy to think that way. But in the long run every business that faces c
by jacob019 7y ago
Let's say it is $2k/mo. I also run a small business. And when things are growing it's easy to think that way. But in the long run every business that faces competition needs to focus on the bottom line. How many developer hours do you think it took to save that $24,000 per year? Not much. And that is just one example. A culture that ignores efficiency is doomed to failure.
- MuffinFlavored 7y ago> Let's say it is $2k/mo. I also run a small business. Your server bill should be $100/mo - $200/mo max for a "small" business. I've ran a multi-tenant SaaS platform on a $200/mo DigitalOcean budget (server for Postgres, server for Redis, server for node.js apps) that brought in $30k/mo. If you're spending that much a month on cloud hosting, consider yourself got by the marketing of "serverless".
- jfengel 7y agoIn this case, they receive five billion requests a day, from a client base of over a billion. That's not really a small business any more. I don't know what DigitalOcean would charge for servers at that scale.
- sombremesa 7y agoI think you missed GP's point. They aren't telling us how much their business makes, they are replying to the posts saying "that wasn't worth it" -> "maybe it was worth it because it was probably ~8k" with "even if it was 2k it was worth it".