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It won't cost you that much, because you're almost certainly not going to be successful as Instagram or Twitter. If you are, you have what is called a "high cl

by patio11 14y ago

It won't cost you that much, because you're almost certainly not going to be successful as Instagram or Twitter. If you are, you have what is called a "high class problem." Here's a less stratospheric comparable for you: I run a business with something like 250k users and 10~20k monthly active users, with those numbers representing people with accounts. The costs to run the business are do not scale linearly with traffic, at all. I spend about $300 a month on hosting (VPS at Rackspace) and bandwidth and another few hundred bucks on various recurring things (server monitoring, analytics solutions, etc). The overwhelmingly likely source of failure for your application is not that it will bankrupt you with hosting cost. It is that you will not be able to convince two dozen people to actually use it. This should be the worry that wakes you up screaming in the middle of the night and causes you to go get advice from people you think are credible. It is far and away your largest source of risk. Pick any population of startups which you admire: their #1 scaling problem is that they have no scaling problems at all!

stewie2 14y ago
Thank you. Does your website involve file uploading? like for example images? I'm looking at the pricing page of parse.com, it charges 5 cents for 1000 database accesses. I have accessed the database for 9000 times for the past 30days, I will need to pay 45 cents for my activity. Assuming my activity can represents 3 typical active users, That means I need to pay 15 cents for one active user. Consider I have 500k active users, I need to pay $75000 each month. Is parse.com too expensive?
- arockwell 14y ago
  If you are currently at roughly 0 active users, I would not worry about how much 500k active users cost. That said, I think something about your cost estimate is way off. It should not cost $75k/mo to host 500k active users. My guess is that either: 1) Your use case analysis is on the high side 2) You are using parse incorrectly 3) Parse is a bad fit for your application You can rent 100s of servers from aws for $75k/mo. That should be way overkill to handle 500k active users.

by patio11 14y ago

stewie2 14y ago

Thank you. Does your website involve file uploading? like for example images? I'm looking at the pricing page of parse.com, it charges 5 cents for 1000 database accesses. I have accessed the database for 9000 times for the past 30days, I will need to pay 45 cents for my activity. Assuming my activity can represents 3 typical active users, That means I need to pay 15 cents for one active user. Consider I have 500k active users, I need to pay $75000 each month. Is parse.com too expensive?

arockwell 14y ago
If you are currently at roughly 0 active users, I would not worry about how much 500k active users cost. That said, I think something about your cost estimate is way off. It should not cost $75k/mo to host 500k active users. My guess is that either: 1) Your use case analysis is on the high side 2) You are using parse incorrectly 3) Parse is a bad fit for your application You can rent 100s of servers from aws for $75k/mo. That should be way overkill to handle 500k active users.