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Re:Etsy Announces Move to Google Cloud by discoursism on Thursday December 14, 2017 @11:06PM (#15929607)
> Why on earth would a startup waste money like that?

Because the cost of hosting a typical startup, even on GCP, is trivial compared to a single engineer's salary.

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Re:Etsy Announces Move to Google Cloud by foobarbazetc on Friday December 15, 2017 @01:36AM (#15930044)
It really depends. When we were starting out keeping our hosting costs low with dedicated servers kept us afloat.

We actually make an effort to cut our hosting costs while expanding capacity pretty much every year now because Intel keeps making better chips.

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