Are startups 10x cheaper than ten years ago?

Re:Are startups 10x cheaper than ten years ago? by arctangent on Tuesday March 01, 2011 @09:51AM (#2275562)

I think even $400 a month was a very high hurdle.

Immediately it cuts out every individual who is unemployed or who is a resident of a poorer nation.

The fact that you can get started for $10 a month is an enormous improvement on how things used to be.

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Re:Are startups 10x cheaper than ten years ago? by tomkarlo on Tuesday March 01, 2011 @10:55AM (#2275863)

You didn't _have_ to colocate... you could get a shared server and pay a lot less, but give up root access. At the time though lots of sites were basically big CGI scripts and didn't really need their own server. Even these days you're still really talking $80-$100 a month for your own server, anything less and you're probably getting some kind of slice or VPS that you have to share with a bunch of other sites (as I was reminded this morning when Slicehost hard rebooted the machine my slice was on due to some other site misbehaving, taking down one of my sites temporarily.)

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Re:Are startups 10x cheaper than ten years ago? by swombat on Tuesday March 01, 2011 @11:14AM (#2275949)

€49/m, 8GB, 2x750GB hdd, i7-920 quad-core: http://www.hetzner.de/hosting/produkte_rootserver/eq4

So, about 10x cheaper, in this case...

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Re:Are startups 10x cheaper than ten years ago? by tomkarlo on Tuesday March 01, 2011 @01:04PM (#2276457)

How is $80 10x cheaper than $400?

(Is anything X times cheaper than Y? Cheaper = delta. Expense / cost is the base. Seems like it's better to say 1/10 as expensive.)

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Re:Are startups 10x cheaper than ten years ago? by swombat on Tuesday March 01, 2011 @06:34PM (#2277757)

Alright, 5x. I wasn't considering that the $ was so weak.

Same difference.

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