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Do you have 20 grand lying around to buy a server farm of mac minis? ;) In order to offer the course, they need to build the infrastructure ... and in order to
by CodeCube 14y ago
Do you have 20 grand lying around to buy a server farm of mac minis? ;)
In order to offer the course, they need to build the infrastructure ... and in order to build the infrastructure, one needs capital to even start on the venture. In the past, you would go to a venture capitalist to front the money. Kickstarter offers a way of doing that without the strings attached.
I find no qualms with this usage of kickstarter
- Aqua_Geek 14y ago> Do you have 20 grand lying around to buy a server farm of mac minis? Why start out with a whole farm? Why not start small - with just a few? Surely you don't need all of them up front in order to build out the infrastructure for them. Then, as $$ starts coming in from sign-ups, you start provisioning more and more of them.
- envex 14y agoHow would you feel if you paid for the course, but their current farm wasn't working because of all the new signups, or people trying to do the same course? They want to build a big farm to begin with to handle the load.
- duked 14y agoThey can easily use scheduling/cron and create N slots for 1 Hour and assign a slot for a build .... No need to have a huge infrastructure just smart schedule and if really lots of sign up patient users ...
- Aqua_Geek 14y agoAgreed - I'd be pretty upset. Alternately, they could take (free) signups for beta slots. Once your number comes up (i.e. when they provision enough machines to support the next batch of users), you hand over cash and get access.