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Why did it cost $200,000 to produce and host the video? That seems way too expensive. $32,000 on the web site and hosting? Are you kidding me? Bandwidth sho
by sixQuarks 15y ago
Why did it cost $200,000 to produce and host the video? That seems way too expensive. $32,000 on the web site and hosting? Are you kidding me?
Bandwidth shouldn't cost more than $100 per TB. Seems like he got ripped off big time.
- angrycoder 15y agoYou think he can just have his buddy record on his cellphone, edit it in Windows Movie Maker, and throw it up on a linode instance?
- vidarh 15y agoUsing your bandwidth price, his bandwidth costs alone will have easily exceeded $10k. Assuming $22,000 as a top end estimate for design, development and somewhere to host it sounds quite reasonable to me. If he hasn't chosen a bargain basement designer and developers, it's not uncommon to pay $1k+ per day for an agency. 20-22 man days if we exclude hosting costs, from concept, through proper design, content, development, testing and deployment isn't much at all.
- lukeholder 15y agoyeah I just don't understand the whining from some people here at HN about the cost of the website. I suspect they are freelance guys with inadequate skills to charge the proper rate. This website would have taken at least taken $32k to design, build, test, approve, test etc. (test allot) Of course some hackers could whip it up in a day - but I wouldn't trust the best hacker to have dotted all the i's and crossed the t's. Payment testing, S3 testing etc. Doing something right is different than just doing it.
- sixQuarks 15y agoWell, I guess I was wrong then. It's true I'm not a technical guy, but I've run a site that did 1TB of bandwidth each month and never paid more than $130/month for hosting (back in the early 2000's), so I figured he should have gotten better pricing these days.