Re:The Costs of Bookmarking
by adambyrtek on Sunday September 11, 2011 @10:24PM
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What makes you think that in "a week or two" you are able to cut costs by a factor of ten without sacrificing performance and reliability?
Re:The Costs of Bookmarking
by mattmanser on Monday September 12, 2011 @10:11AM
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Well, there's a lot of people here expressing surprise at the cost of hosting a small user base of simple data in a not complicated problem domain.
It looks an order of magnitude too expensive to us, there's probably some simple thing wrong in the architecture.
Maybe we're all missing a key complexity of the service. The Archival service might be it.
For $21.6k/yr I'd say it's worth a week or two re-architecting.
Yes, it's a different game if you're profitable and $21.6k is negligible, but if you're a startup you should be spending time to optimize things.
The other point is one of scaling. If you're paying $2k/mo to support 15k users, when you scale to 15m users, you could be paying $2m/mo unless you fix things early on.