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What people really don‘t get is that depending on where you are, 500k annual is only the payroll of 3-5 employees. You can quickly outgrow that if your on premi
by selfmodruntime 4y ago
What people really don‘t get is that depending on where you are, 500k annual is only the payroll of 3-5 employees. You can quickly outgrow that if your on premise infrastructure grows.
- spiffytech 4y agoEven worse, the total cost of an employee is often reported at 1.5x their salary, or higher. Engineer hours eat up per-compute-hour savings fast.
- jtsiskin 4y agoOr in SF, that’s the cost of 1 employee. Only consider running it yourself if your compute is by far your largest cost, or if it’s a huge component of what you’re selling (for instance a cloud backup service, a video hosting service, a CDN, etc. where you’re competing with others and a lower marginal cost let’s you gain market share)