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Re:The Business of SaaS by lettergram on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @04:27PM (#16424358)
Don't need the standby server, just use automated backups.

You also don't need the linode running nginx, with so few users put it on one server.

Finally wordpress should be $5/month or less.

Right there you could drop at least $15 / month.

Re:The Business of SaaS by lugg on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @05:54PM (#16425041)
$15 / month.

Kind of not even worth thinking about when you're a developer and should be internally billing yourself for $100/hour+.

Re:The Business of SaaS by lettergram on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @06:43PM (#16425419)
Fair, what I decribed should reduce overhead as well (less nodes = less complexity typically).

Also when you're starting something you can't bill yourself anything mentally. Else you'd go out and be billing someone else, you'd likely make more money. In part cutting costs is important because it's actual savings, i.e. imagning billing yourself doesn't produce real money.

Re:The Business of SaaS by jcadam on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @07:24PM (#16425682)
Hey, my day job doesn't pay nearly that much :)