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His app generated no revenue, so any price other than trivial would have him jumping ship. Why does Google want apps like his?

• robryan 15y ago
  The $2.63 a day comes out to $81 a month which for hosting is a non trivial amount. It does come down to whether Google can turn a profit at these levels for someone using this amount of resources but I don't think customers willing to pay $50-$100 a month are ones you want to push away.
  • wccrawford 15y ago
    $81/month for a fun project that gets you noticed and looks good on your resume is nothing to sneeze at. Blog about it, and suddenly you have a hidden revenue stream from it. Let people know its yours and suddenly you have some weight to throw around.
    • catch23 15y ago
      For $81/month, you can get a 4 processor 2GB Linode box, which is enough to run a few dozen fun projects on there.
      • fuckgoogle 15y ago
        For $69/month you can get a 8 GB dedicated server with Core i7-920. http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produktmatrix/rootserver-produktmatrix-eq http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produktmatrix/rootserver-pr... With Google the only thing you'll get for $69/month is a sore ass.
    • papaf 15y ago
      I think you're severely underestimating what a $81 machine is capable of: http://www.kegel.com/c10k.html http://www.kegel.com/c10k.html and the choices available for fun projects: http://www.lowendbox.com/ http://www.lowendbox.com/