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Re:How much can you get out of a $4 VPS? by bruce343434 on Monday February 06, 2023 @04:47PM (#34684902)
> But if you're running an actual business, even a $10,000/month AWS bill is cheaper than hiring another skilled developer to help manage your dedicated servers.

Uhhh, excuse me but how much are you paying this DevOps guy? This seems like a very American perspective, even valley area. In Europe, hiring a guy would be cheaper.

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Re:How much can you get out of a $4 VPS? by baq on Monday February 06, 2023 @05:04PM (#34685112)
Where do you find these people you say are available for hire in Europe? I see scarcely little
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Re:How much can you get out of a $4 VPS? by dijit on Monday February 06, 2023 @06:57PM (#34686405)
plenty. how much do you want to pay and what skills in particular.

I can hook you up in about 3 hours.

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Re:How much can you get out of a $4 VPS? by PragmaticPulp on Monday February 06, 2023 @08:55PM (#34687520)
> Uhhh, excuse me but how much are you paying this DevOps guy? This seems like a very American perspective, even valley area. In Europe, hiring a guy would be cheaper.

Fully loaded employment costs are significantly higher than what you take home in your paycheck. It's actually worse in Europe. Take a look at these charts: https://accace.com/the-true-cost-of-an-employee-in-europe/

If you pay someone 1000 EUR in the UK, it costs the company a total of 1245 EUR.

If you pay someone 1000 EUR in Romania, it costs the company 1747 EUR total.

So a $120,000 fully loaded cost might only buy you at $68,000 USD salary for an EU devops person.

But you can't have just one devops person. You need at least 2 if you want to allow one of them to ever take a break, get sick, or go on vacation.

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