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The decision to run my own hardware is due to the extremely high cost of storing and moving ~80TB around on the cloud, as well as running a high-memory MySQL in
by idlewords 6y ago
The decision to run my own hardware is due to the extremely high cost of storing and moving ~80TB around on the cloud, as well as running a high-memory MySQL instance. I haven't priced it recently, but the last time I looked it would have raised my costs by an order of magnitude.
- imiric 6y agoI can understand that, but have you considered a pay-per-use / tiered business model? It's clear from this thread that there are users who have thousands of bookmarks, using dozens of GB of storage, and those who use it much less and whose storage costs are negligible. Having either group pay a flat rate doesn't make sense to me, and you end up losing revenue either way. A tiered model could allow you to offset the cloud storage costs, maybe migrate things into the cloud and ease some of the maintenance burden on yourself.
- juliusmusseau 6y ago80TB on AWS is $44K USD / year on their crappy (cheap rotational) "st1" volume.
- nikisweeting 6y agoOr $5k/yr on Backblaze B2 with their free ingress/egress setup https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage-pricing.html#calculator https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage-pricing.html#calc...