4 ms·

Yes, that are also the usual monthly costs we had. Servers could mostly be ignored in our case (below 20$ per month). Usually some one time costs are also neede

Yes, that are also the usual monthly costs we had. Servers could mostly be ignored in our case (below 20$ per month). Usually some one time costs are also needed. Like some hardware or for us the most expensive thing where the software licenses (though open source got us very, very far). I also paid for some legal advice, but it wasn't really worth it's money. Oh - and in countries like germany don't forget the health insurance, which is the highest monthly cost I have to pay.

cperciva 19y ago
Where do you get servers for less than $20/month?
- omouse 19y ago
  I know the question isn't directed at me, but I found a web host that lets you pay according to how much bandwidth you actually use: https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/ https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/ The bonus is that they support haskell, scheme, common lisp and ocaml web apps :)
  - lsb 19y ago
    And the downside is that their disk access, from experience, is really slow.
- coffeeaddicted 19y ago
  We did only need a vserver for a start which are not hard to get at that price. Also I won't recommend my provider as we had horrible downtimes for a while and it's still not that good. So while we pay less than $20 per month, I wouldn't recommend it and the main reason we stay is that we have a 1 year contract.
  - cperciva 19y ago
    while we pay less than $20 per month, I wouldn't recommend it... Ok, that more or less matches what I thought -- that it's possible to get a VPS for less than $20, but not necessarily a very good idea.
zaidf 19y ago
Some of us are less lucky. Our last month's bandwidth cost was around 4k--all pushed to our credit cards.
- coffeeaddicted 19y ago
  That was one of our biggest fears and the main reason we chose our current provider. He offered unlimited traffic and we are offering a rather large demo (about 25 MB) and some videos. But by now I found out that getting above 500gb (which was a typical limit for other providers) seems not to be possible with our weak vserver so the unlimited doesn't mean much (but maybe I'm just not a good enough admin for that). We lost a lot of downloads that way, though when I now read how much you had to pay - that sounds really worse.
- rms 19y ago
  David Rusenko: >call any investor in the valley and tell them "I'm growing so fast and I need $15,000 to pay for servers and hosting" and you'll have convertible note paperwork signed by the end of the week" http://david.weebly.com/1/post/2007/07/why-you-wont-run-out-of-money.html http://david.weebly.com/1/post/2007/07/why-you-wont-run-out-...

cperciva 19y ago

Where do you get servers for less than $20/month?

omouse 19y ago
I know the question isn't directed at me, but I found a web host that lets you pay according to how much bandwidth you actually use: https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/ https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/ The bonus is that they support haskell, scheme, common lisp and ocaml web apps :)
- lsb 19y ago
  And the downside is that their disk access, from experience, is really slow.
coffeeaddicted 19y ago
We did only need a vserver for a start which are not hard to get at that price. Also I won't recommend my provider as we had horrible downtimes for a while and it's still not that good. So while we pay less than $20 per month, I wouldn't recommend it and the main reason we stay is that we have a 1 year contract.
- cperciva 19y ago
  while we pay less than $20 per month, I wouldn't recommend it... Ok, that more or less matches what I thought -- that it's possible to get a VPS for less than $20, but not necessarily a very good idea.

zaidf 19y ago

Some of us are less lucky. Our last month's bandwidth cost was around 4k--all pushed to our credit cards.

coffeeaddicted 19y ago
That was one of our biggest fears and the main reason we chose our current provider. He offered unlimited traffic and we are offering a rather large demo (about 25 MB) and some videos. But by now I found out that getting above 500gb (which was a typical limit for other providers) seems not to be possible with our weak vserver so the unlimited doesn't mean much (but maybe I'm just not a good enough admin for that). We lost a lot of downloads that way, though when I now read how much you had to pay - that sounds really worse.
rms 19y ago
David Rusenko: >call any investor in the valley and tell them "I'm growing so fast and I need $15,000 to pay for servers and hosting" and you'll have convertible note paperwork signed by the end of the week" http://david.weebly.com/1/post/2007/07/why-you-wont-run-out-of-money.html http://david.weebly.com/1/post/2007/07/why-you-wont-run-out-...