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All our stuff runs on one (1) server This has nothing to do with MS, but why would you set up such an architecture? If one of the apps hits a memory leak (their HeatTest project did), than all of your other critical services/apps are interrupted. That costs us about $200 a month. By the way, that's Amazon What Amazon configuration gets you 8GB or RAM for $200/month?? Am I missing something? Database servers for all o…
But to say that the Windows architecture is significantly better bang for the buck requires more of an apples to apples comparison. The best I can find is that Hoy describes Charm as having 3,800 interested users in Oct. 2012...The OP describes having hundreds of companies (each with a variable number of users) issuing about 1,500 support tickets daily.
(I'm not counting the traffic visits to the blog because that should be trivial, in the scheme of things, to manage...though I guess kudos for putting it on the same server as the software platform?)
I guess knowing the other costs, such as developer time/salaries, would be helpful.
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Keep in mind that BizSpark "runs out" when you pass a million dollars per year in revenue. At which point you can presumably afford a thousand dollars for a SQL Server license.
There's also a cap of 3 years, even if you haven't hit $1m revenue yet: http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/faqs.aspx#16
I've personally been in Microsoft's "let's give developers everything for basically free" programs since 2006, and am not worried that I'll suddenly face a crippling bill down the line.
Shafting little startups for a lousy grand or two really is not their business model. Think about it for a second and it'll make sense.
EDIT: To be clear, I'm not advocating gambling your business on Microsoft's goodwill here. For the same reason I don't advocate building a business that a single bill for $1,000 can kill.
The worst case result of MS pulling the rug on all their BizSpark-esque programs is an extra couple thousand dollars a year in the expense column. Here's hoping nobody here works for a shop where that would be a big deal.
Something like "we're a member of Microsoft's BizSpark program and you can find out what that means for us here: http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/About/Default.aspx"
Then was interested in this article because at our company we have 400-500 servers - mostly Ubuntu with some CentoS and FreeBSD. Lately we need WinSvr to run a BI app that generates nice visualizations for datasci to feed business/ sales.
Funny how not one sysadmin wants to touch this project... ;)
That all being said, the developer affection, in certain neighborhoods, for C# and .Net seems genuine, which makes an argument for developing an app on this platform - that seems clear.
I do not see this scaling out however. And historically Microsoft largesse (in education, research or with this startup initiative) has a way of drying up...
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Wait, am I an idiot then? I thought $200/mo just gets you reduced per minute rates? So ~720*0.00x + $200 = $y/mo. As far as I know, there is no way on Amazon to pay a flat monthly fee. It's all "pay for what you drink".
I think you actually understand it just fine but might be confusing yourself a bit. Paying the reservation fee does just get you reduced per minute rates, but the fee is not $200/mo. The reservation fee in this example is $676 for an entire year. Once you pay that, your hourly rate for a single m1.large goes down to $0.056. My final $100/mo total is based on 24/7 uptime on that single server you've reserved.
How much of this is old-school admin practices vs. the new "cloud" philosophy of spinning up lots of boxes that you don't care about? I don't see a Microsoft vs. Open-source argument for alot of this stuff. Many of the devs I see working with "cool kids" tools don't know anything about operating IT environments, yet they are playing admin. They're spinning up dozens of single-purpose VMs, sometimes to perform trivial…
It's not free, but configuration management tools make it pretty cheap. There's a reason Puppet/Chef/Ansible/Salt are getting a lot of attention in the DevOps world.