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I was doing startups 10 years ago. You didn't need Oracle (first of all, MySQL was already available) and you didn't need tens of thousands of dollars of server
by tomkarlo 16y ago
I was doing startups 10 years ago. You didn't need Oracle (first of all, MySQL was already available) and you didn't need tens of thousands of dollars of servers. Yes, you probably paid $400 a month for colocation but that's a relatively small amount compared to labor.
The market was smaller (fewer people online, less commerce) but it was also a lot less competitive. All things being equal I prefer the current situation.
- arctangent 16y agoI think even $400 a month was a very high hurdle. Immediately it cuts out every individual who is unemployed or who is a resident of a poorer nation. The fact that you can get started for $10 a month is an enormous improvement on how things used to be.
- tomkarlo 16y agoYou didn't _have_ to colocate... you could get a shared server and pay a lot less, but give up root access. At the time though lots of sites were basically big CGI scripts and didn't really need their own server. Even these days you're still really talking $80-$100 a month for your own server, anything less and you're probably getting some kind of slice or VPS that you have to share with a bunch of other sites (as I was reminded this morning when Slicehost hard rebooted the machine my slice was on due to some other site misbehaving, taking down one of my sites temporarily.)
- swombat 16y ago€49/m, 8GB, 2x750GB hdd, i7-920 quad-core: http://www.hetzner.de/hosting/produkte_rootserver/eq4 http://www.hetzner.de/hosting/produkte_rootserver/eq4 So, about 10x cheaper, in this case...