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Costs like energy, admin, maintenance were included. The figures for on premise are NOT illustrative but real figures. It is hard to believe how high cloud costs are.

If your startup survive next 6 months it is already more cost-effective to buy a server. And if startup fails you still have a server to run your next startup.

Isn't it how you save money by picking cheaper product instead of more expensive? We save by buying hardware and renting DC space. If we were using AWS we would not save.

Would be 1000% in our comparison

Did you see how much we saved comparing to AWS? We could even hire an admin for each of 850 servers and would still have money left. But we have only one person taking care of hard…

I am bootstrapping a SaaS for 13 years. We are at $100M+ ARR and almost a hundred people. Still enjoying it. We've slowly built a strong team during these years and it is a real pl…

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Fresh numbers are: 3115 servers 330K CPU cores 2.3PB RAM 50PB HDD 182PB SSD most of it is in Singapore

Not all content is equal. Good content require efforts, often efforts of a team. Youtube is a good example of how revenue share will work in practice. Some creators are getting mil…

No boolean search yet.

There is a lot of intersection between Ahrefs tools and search. We were collecting web data for Ahrefs tools for 12 years, now we repurpose these data for Yep.

We do indexing ourselves and don't use any third-party APIs.

Image search is coming. We have it working but it is not fast enough yet.

This is how we see it. Your content is helpful to people, your content helps search engine to provide relevant results, relevant results help search engine to keep user base and ge…

We start from the hard problem - search itself. When we are happy with a search results we will add ads and revenue share. There is no revenue to share at the moment.

We don't process visitor location in any way at the moment. There is no local search on Yep yet.