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I'd assume a few thousand for servers + softwares, but yah.. it's close enough to $0 you can usually tell if it's profitable. Unlike something like e-commerce
by brianwawok 4y ago
I'd assume a few thousand for servers + softwares, but yah.. it's close enough to $0 you can usually tell if it's profitable.
Unlike something like e-commerce where 100k in monthly sales could be... 0 profit, or 70k in profit.
- XCSme 4y agoUnless it's a data-intensive service, the servers+software costs are under a few hundreds. Source: I sell self-hosted software, my costs are mostly the domain names and a few $5/mo servers.
- brianwawok 4y agoCool. Glad you took the time to correct me. I run a SaaS and spend a few thousand per month for my hardware and software. And I wouldn’t want to spend any less and reduce my footprint,
- __pache__ 4y agowhy do you have to spend a few thousand?
- brianwawok 4y agoWhy not? Zendesk alone is over 1k. You can use a fake help desk software for half, but is it worth screwing with the bugs? My CPU load is something like 200 CPUs 24/7, and needs to be fault tolerant on top of that. Also needs to run without a sysadmin on my side.
- __pache__ 4y agowhy such a high cpu load?
- XCSme 4y agoI was not correcting you, just stating that for most solo entrepreneurs, the running costs are close to zero, usually unless your service handles intensive data (images/videos) or decide to spend the money on paid hosted solutions vs hosting open-source alternatives.