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The Benefits and Risks of Using the Cloud(blog.planforcloud.com)
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Ask HN: What product do you use for your metrics dashboard?
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Cost Comparison: Amazon Glacier vs S3 (blog.planforcloud.com)
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by akh 14y ago
We just ran a quick cost forecast and it's interesting: If you start with 100GB then add 10GB/month, it would cost $102.60 after 3 years on AWS Glacier vs $1,282.50 on AWS S3!
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by akh 14y ago
We've just added support for Amazon Glacier to http://www.PlanForCloud.com so you quickly forecast your costs and compare it with other options.
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Did Bill Gates Steal the Heart of DOS?(spectrum.ieee.org)
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RightScale buys into cloud cost forecasting (gigaom.com)
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by akh 14y ago
Edinburgh, UK. ShopForCloud's first employee. * Quotes we love - "In God we trust; all others must bring data." - W. Edwards Deming - "Warning! Notice is given that any person found Pilfering, Stealing, Robbing, or Committing any code wit
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by akh 14y ago
Interesting, are you using any cloud management platform (e.g. RightScale)? They'll make it simpler to migrate. If you're scenario is more complicated than a single server, you might find our tool useful to forecast your costs: https://my.
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by akh 14y ago
Thanks for the feedback, that's been one of the most requested features and it's on our list...
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We now support Google Compute Engine and Cloud Storage prices(blog.shopforcloud.com)
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by akh 14y ago
It's interesting to see how a lot of the discussions here are around costs. We've just added support for the Google Compute Engine and Cloud Storage to our cloud cost simulation software at http://www.ShopForCloud.com ( http://blog.shopfo
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Building a startup - what would make a startup office cool? (blog.shopforcloud.com)
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The cloud just got cheaper: AWS, Microsoft Azure and Rackspace lower prices(blog.shopforcloud.com)
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by akh 14y ago
The culture issue that pcrh mentioned is what I was referring to. It's not that Scottish seed investors don't ask about projections, it's that if you're a Scottish startup and what to apply for YC, you have to be thinking about much bigger
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by akh 14y ago
As I mentioned in the post, we changed our answer because we were overwhelmed by the YC Alumni placing an important emphasis on the figures. You can't advise someone to put their PhD on hold if it's a great idea without knowing the status o
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by akh 14y ago
> You note that nowhere in your YC application do they specifically ask you about money stuff. Sorry maybe I was slightly vague in the blog post, the YC application form has a specific question on money [1], but as I said in our post, w
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by akh 14y ago
mrkurt, ChuckMcM: As my co-founder mentioned in another comment a bit further down "We had been approached and offered investment as well as a global IT company asking for an exclusivity deal. However, I think the numbers that the Valley wo
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by akh 14y ago
> Further, cloud companies will probably be resistant to a service like yours because it will negatively impact their margins. I should mention that we've been approached by a number of cloud providers who want to be included in our sys
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by akh 14y ago
You're right, they go through so many interviews (around 370 in our batch) that they probably develop gut feelings about which startups to pick. But like you said, they might have guessed wrong in our case.
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by akh 14y ago
Here's our vision, do you think it will be huge? Cloud computing is fundamentally changing the way that companies buy computing, and our vision is to be the one-stop-shop for computing in the future. The cloud's pay-as-you-go billing model
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by akh 14y ago
Thanks! Were you at TechMeetup in Edinburgh last night by any chance?
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by akh 14y ago
Completely agreed about a difference in scale between US (your comment said UK, typo?) and rest of world. We knew we could make money but it seems like YC is after more consumer-oriented startups that can scale to huge numbers. So if you're
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by akh 14y ago
We didn't just make some numbers up, we made assumptions (e.g. 1% of users would signup to premium version), BUT the problem we had was that we've been brought up in a culture where people look down on you if you say you can make $5M/year,
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by akh 14y ago
If you've been through the YC interview process, we would love to get your views on this.
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Our YC Interview: A Scottish Startup's Perspective(blog.shopforcloud.com)
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by akh 14y ago
We also host our static site on S3, it costs us $0.12/month. Here's how we do it: http://blog.shopforcloud.com/2012/04/how-to-host-your-site-o...
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by akh 14y ago
Looks pretty cool, are you using some cloud management platform's APIs underneath (like scalr, rightscale, enstratus etc)? Does it only support VMs? or can I attach my EBS volumes when I launch a new VM as well?
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by akh 14y ago
As far as I know, Dropbox is using S3, which has reduced its prices several times, so Dropbox should pass that saving onto its users just like AWS is.
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by akh 14y ago
I should add that this site just started a few months ago and has around 5K pageviews/month. Anyone else using S3 for their static sites? If so, do you recommend AWS CloudFront for this and is it worth the extra pennies?

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