Re:Ask HN: Is hosting cost a factor in launching your startup?
by bryanrasmussen on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @10:07AM
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no but it is sort of a factor in moving our startup up a level, under the theory that time is money.
The problem is we have free hosting from a friend whose business has so much AWS usage that ours is negligible, however to move up we should move and it is painful to consider doing the move since to get the same level of service that will require
setting up hosting somewhere - AWS, Digital Ocean, bizspark etc.
Setting up Nginx
Setting up Phusion
doing routine maintenance
before we get to the next level stuff we want to do - Redis queuing to handle image conversions in-house (instead of relying on services which I don't think do a good enough job), GraphDB usage, and so on and so forth.
and even under the theory that money is also money, we are bootstrapping pretty hard right now, so even $50 a month is at least a consideration.
The problem is we have free hosting from a friend whose business has so much AWS usage that ours is negligible, however to move up we should move and it is painful to consider doing the move since to get the same level of service that will require
setting up hosting somewhere - AWS, Digital Ocean, bizspark etc. Setting up Nginx Setting up Phusion doing routine maintenance
before we get to the next level stuff we want to do - Redis queuing to handle image conversions in-house (instead of relying on services which I don't think do a good enough job), GraphDB usage, and so on and so forth.
and even under the theory that money is also money, we are bootstrapping pretty hard right now, so even $50 a month is at least a consideration.