Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

I hate such titles with a passion. I wonder if people will ever realize that "X monthly users" means absolutely nothing. That's by far the most useless metric people have come up with. This is the exact equivalent of "costs of living healthy":

1. How do you define "healthy". 2. Genetic abilities. 3. Overall health. 4. Eating habits. 5. Your geographical location. 6. Your daily routine ..... X^60000. {Factor number X^60000}

There are an infinite amount of buttons and dials that will determine how much "X monthly users" will set you back. Back in 2011 I used to own a blog that had something along the lines of 25k daily visitors. My annual bill was less than 100 bucks, domain included. And keep in mind that this was way before AWS, GCP and Azure came into the picture and costs were much higher than they are now. But I had spent months investigating the cheapest and most efficient ways to cut down costs. And it's the same with cloud providers - they can be brutally expensive or dirt cheap for the exact same thing if you don't take your time to see which and what is the best solution for your use case.



Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: