Re:Ask HN: Is hosting cost a factor in launching your startup?
by herbst on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @02:31AM
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I have a website that would cost me about $600 on AWS, the site makes about Twice as much a month. Thats not exactly a startup but depending on what you do, its probably worth to think about it.
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Re:Ask HN: Is hosting cost a factor in launching your startup?
by CyberFonic on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @03:23AM
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That's a pretty hefty hosting cost compared to revenue. Do you have a lot of non-paying users?
Re:Ask HN: Is hosting cost a factor in launching your startup?
by herbst on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @03:35AM
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All of them actually plus the Application has some design flaws which eat up RAM like butter.
I also have to add that hosting costs me about 50€ right now, the same box which also hosts all my other services. My point is that i thought about it and got a rather cheap dedicated box, build up my own "hosting structure" on it, including load balancing and use Cloudflare which helps a lot when you have massive traffic. I could also use AWS for about $200, but when i would just purchase each service individually on AWS it would get very expensive fast.