It Costs $17,658.62 to Run Unsplash for a Single Month

Re:It Costs $17,658.62 to Run Unsplash for a Single Month by FireBeyond on Monday April 18, 2016 @04:38PM (#11522984)

"While Heroku charges a small premium over other hosting services, our small team size and high traffic makes the tradeoff really beneficial since we save big on DevOps costs (a topic we’ll save for another post)."

A small premium?

Like the author says "could it be done cheaper, whatever"... sure - valid point.

I just had to amuse myself at Heroku's hosting charges being "a small premium".

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Re:It Costs $17,658.62 to Run Unsplash for a Single Month by iNerdier on Monday April 18, 2016 @04:44PM (#11523020)

To me it kind of makes sense. Heroku is in effect taking the place of a number of developers and/or sysadmins, they've already thought about the problems and solved them in one particular way.

Sure they could re-write things and move to their own servers or amazon s3 or google computer or wherever but they'd have to go through the process of finding, training and hiring people to do it, plus all the difficulties that come with that.

I would imagine they're thinking about changing many things about their setup but for something of their size I can see why the money tradeoff makes more sense at the current time

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