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How Ahrefs Gets a Billion Dollar-Worth Infrastructure with a 90% Discount(tech.ahrefs.com)
65 points by botsbreeder 2y ago|46 comments
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by botsbreeder 4y ago
Costs like energy, admin, maintenance were included. The figures for on premise are NOT illustrative but real figures. It is hard to believe how high cloud costs are.
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by botsbreeder 4y ago
If your startup survive next 6 months it is already more cost-effective to buy a server. And if startup fails you still have a server to run your next startup.
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by botsbreeder 4y ago
Isn't it how you save money by picking cheaper product instead of more expensive? We save by buying hardware and renting DC space. If we were using AWS we would not save.
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by botsbreeder 4y ago
Would be 1000% in our comparison
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by botsbreeder 4y ago
Did you see how much we saved comparing to AWS? We could even hire an admin for each of 850 servers and would still have money left. But we have only one person taking care of hardware replacements. That is enough for the whole setup.
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Ahrefs saved $400m in 3 years by not going to the cloud(tech.ahrefs.com)
131 points by botsbreeder 4y ago|163 comments
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by botsbreeder 4y ago
I am bootstrapping a SaaS for 13 years. We are at $100M+ ARR and almost a hundred people. Still enjoying it. We've slowly built a strong team during these years and it is a real pleasure to participate and see them solve problems, inno
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by botsbreeder 4y ago
AhrefsBot respects robots.txt. Details are here: https://ahrefs.com/robot
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by botsbreeder 4y ago
AhrefsBot execute JS on small percent of pages from 2017 https://ahrefs.com/blog/crawling-javascript/
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by botsbreeder 4y ago
Fresh numbers are: 3115 servers 330K CPU cores 2.3PB RAM 50PB HDD 182PB SSD most of it is in Singapore
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by botsbreeder 4y ago
Not all content is equal. Good content require efforts, often efforts of a team. Youtube is a good example of how revenue share will work in practice. Some creators are getting millions there, some maybe hundreds. But as a consumer you can
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by botsbreeder 4y ago
No boolean search yet.
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by botsbreeder 4y ago
There is a lot of intersection between Ahrefs tools and search. We were collecting web data for Ahrefs tools for 12 years, now we repurpose these data for Yep.
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by botsbreeder 4y ago
We do indexing ourselves and don't use any third-party APIs.
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by botsbreeder 4y ago
Image search is coming. We have it working but it is not fast enough yet.
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by botsbreeder 4y ago
This is how we see it. Your content is helpful to people, your content helps search engine to provide relevant results, relevant results help search engine to keep user base and get revenue from ads. Search engines could be supporting peopl
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by botsbreeder 4y ago
We start from the hard problem - search itself. When we are happy with a search results we will add ads and revenue share. There is no revenue to share at the moment.
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by botsbreeder 4y ago
We don't process visitor location in any way at the moment. There is no local search on Yep yet.
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Content Explorer finds the most shared content on the web(ahrefs.com)
1 points by botsbreeder 12y ago|0 comments