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From business growth perspective: if you have paying customers - then such low cost savings are counter intuitive, for a one man shop. A one man shop with payi

From business growth perspective: if you have paying customers - then such low cost savings are counter intuitive, for a one man shop. A one man shop with paying customers shouldn't spend time on optimization, unless it's just for fun. If I'm a customer - I'd rather see more value added functionality, rather than cheaper data storage. But that is my opinion, hope that your customers appreciate you spending time on this.

pengaru 6y ago
they're not mutually exclusive
- jrh206 6y ago
  They kind of are. A one-man shop can only do one thing at once. Either they save costs on data storage, or they spend that time doing something else.
  - welder 6y ago
    No, pengaru's right. They're not mutually exclusive. For ex: making the site faster and more stable means I spend less time fixing and keeping things running and more time building new features.
    - JAlexoid 6y ago
      But cost optimization doesn't make a site more stable.(Remember the context here) In fact, adding another component to optimize the cost is adding another point of failure.
  - staticassertion 6y ago
    Nah. As someone who has gone from a 1 person project to ~10 people and funding, taking the time to tackle problems like this is critical - it frees up an order of magnitude of time later, helps make the product experience smoother, saves you real money that, when you're one person, really can make a difference.
wormik 6y ago
Generally good thinking, but few "real world" notes A) you first need to run the service to get any customers B) this might take long C) you maybe don't want / can't get VC money at this stage D) you maybe are not the most advanced dev who can properly utilitize s3 from I/O perspective, getting you to higher costs than possible E) there might be a time period between introducing the service and getting traction which yields enough feedback, so you can start adding more business features F) when you are burning your own money, you are more senstive to the cost side - which is not ultimately wrong Just my 2c
woadwarrior01 6y ago
Performance is a feature. In this case, it’s the perf gained by avoiding round trips to S3.
- JAlexoid 6y ago
  Which could have been gained by.... hosting on AWS. Which ends up being back to - purely cost optimization of the initial cost optimization. It seems like the whole product is focusing on cost optimization. I suspect that the OP would be better off making money by doing cost optimizations for third parties.

pengaru 6y ago

they're not mutually exclusive

jrh206 6y ago
They kind of are. A one-man shop can only do one thing at once. Either they save costs on data storage, or they spend that time doing something else.
- welder 6y ago
  No, pengaru's right. They're not mutually exclusive. For ex: making the site faster and more stable means I spend less time fixing and keeping things running and more time building new features.
  - JAlexoid 6y ago
    But cost optimization doesn't make a site more stable.(Remember the context here) In fact, adding another component to optimize the cost is adding another point of failure.
- staticassertion 6y ago
  Nah. As someone who has gone from a 1 person project to ~10 people and funding, taking the time to tackle problems like this is critical - it frees up an order of magnitude of time later, helps make the product experience smoother, saves you real money that, when you're one person, really can make a difference.

wormik 6y ago

Generally good thinking, but few "real world" notes A) you first need to run the service to get any customers B) this might take long C) you maybe don't want / can't get VC money at this stage D) you maybe are not the most advanced dev who can properly utilitize s3 from I/O perspective, getting you to higher costs than possible E) there might be a time period between introducing the service and getting traction which yields enough feedback, so you can start adding more business features F) when you are burning your own money, you are more senstive to the cost side - which is not ultimately wrong Just my 2c

woadwarrior01 6y ago

Performance is a feature. In this case, it’s the perf gained by avoiding round trips to S3.

JAlexoid 6y ago
Which could have been gained by.... hosting on AWS. Which ends up being back to - purely cost optimization of the initial cost optimization. It seems like the whole product is focusing on cost optimization. I suspect that the OP would be better off making money by doing cost optimizations for third parties.