Comments on: Scale or Save? http://www.vcdave.com/2007/08/05/save-or-scale/ The latest news from David Feinleib at MDV Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:32:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Chris http://www.vcdave.com/2007/08/05/save-or-scale/#comment-1097 Chris Sat, 25 Aug 2007 14:26:49 +0000 http://www.vcdave.com/2007/08/05/save-or-scale/#comment-1097 The servers we use are top of the line and well priced. In addition, they don't charge anything for setup / upgrades, it's awesome. http://www.softlayer.com Great support and customer service so far. Chris The servers we use are top of the line and well priced. In addition, they don’t charge anything for setup / upgrades, it’s awesome.

http://www.softlayer.com

Great support and customer service so far.

Chris

]]> By: Lance http://www.vcdave.com/2007/08/05/save-or-scale/#comment-1095 Lance Wed, 22 Aug 2007 21:08:52 +0000 http://www.vcdave.com/2007/08/05/save-or-scale/#comment-1095 New post please..... New post please…..

]]> By: drive-by poster http://www.vcdave.com/2007/08/05/save-or-scale/#comment-1094 drive-by poster Tue, 14 Aug 2007 06:25:36 +0000 http://www.vcdave.com/2007/08/05/save-or-scale/#comment-1094 You wrote: ----- To put this in perspective, a 100MB un-metered port delivers about 31,622 GB of data per month. On AWS, that would cost about $4,750 for storage and a little less than $5,700 for bandwidth, per month, for a total of about $10K per month. ----- That's not realistic at all. Unless you're doing something like hosting a whole mess o' steaming streaming video, how likely are you to max out your bandwidth for a solid month, or max out your storage at 31TB? I do see your point-- AWS can add up to a lot more than the other options, and even leasing isn't brilliant costwise. But be fair. I totally agree with lawrence-- the upfront cost thing on a bootstrapped business is the tough part. Once you've proven to yourself that your concept has a certain amount of growth in it, and there is money coming in, you might as well go the dedicated route-- but I'd hold off on that step until you're fairly sure. Variable costs are great-- if your business isn't catching on, you can kill them. You wrote:
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To put this in perspective, a 100MB un-metered port delivers about 31,622 GB of data per month. On AWS, that would cost about $4,750 for storage and a little less than $5,700 for bandwidth, per month, for a total of about $10K per month.
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That’s not realistic at all. Unless you’re doing something like hosting a whole mess o’ steaming streaming video, how likely are you to max out your bandwidth for a solid month, or max out your storage at 31TB?

I do see your point– AWS can add up to a lot more than the other options, and even leasing isn’t brilliant costwise. But be fair.

I totally agree with lawrence– the upfront cost thing on a bootstrapped business is the tough part. Once you’ve proven to yourself that your concept has a certain amount of growth in it, and there is money coming in, you might as well go the dedicated route– but I’d hold off on that step until you’re fairly sure. Variable costs are great– if your business isn’t catching on, you can kill them.

]]> By: lawrence http://www.vcdave.com/2007/08/05/save-or-scale/#comment-577 lawrence Mon, 06 Aug 2007 23:54:34 +0000 http://www.vcdave.com/2007/08/05/save-or-scale/#comment-577 Thanks for that post - great stuff. Obviously cash flow is a consideration when deciding between colo and dedicated. We recently had to migrate from a maxed out quad core web server (which we own) to a web farm architecture. We had every intention of buying the new box(es) outright and going the colo route - but when it came down to it, saving a couple of grand in up front cost is a pretty big deal for a boostrapped company. We ended up leasing the new boxes.... the allure of saving the up front cash was too much to resist. Thanks for that post - great stuff. Obviously cash flow is a consideration when deciding between colo and dedicated. We recently had to migrate from a maxed out quad core web server (which we own) to a web farm architecture. We had every intention of buying the new box(es) outright and going the colo route - but when it came down to it, saving a couple of grand in up front cost is a pretty big deal for a boostrapped company. We ended up leasing the new boxes…. the allure of saving the up front cash was too much to resist.

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