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Post by codesuela » Sat, Sep 08, 2012, 9:13 PM UTC

rdevnull wrote: post #14

mdasen wrote: post #9

The initial question that comes to mind is: how will this be sustainable? It's all well and good to offer this service, but will it be a drain on your finances 6 months down the road? Will it become a drain if more than 250 people sign up for it? I understand that one can get a server with 128GB of SSD storage, quad core, and 16GB of RAM for around $100/mo if one looks enough, but that would only serve 256 people at…

Hello Mdasen ! thanks for your comment and the very good questions. To start with a quick answer: "Would you be able to offer the service if you had to spend $1,000/mo?" Yes :) At the moment we have 3 servers and we are far from full capacity. Of course nothing can scale to the infinite but, from what I could observe, there are always people coming and going. We do have bigger hard disks than 128 gb so the quota in a…

Post by rdevnull » Sat, Sep 08, 2012, 9:32 PM UTC

codesuela wrote: post #21

rdevnull wrote: post #14

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Hello Mdasen ! thanks for your comment and the very good questions. To start with a quick answer: "Would you be able to offer the service if you had to spend $1,000/mo?" Yes :) At the moment we have 3 servers and we are far from full capacity. Of course nothing can scale to the infinite but, from what I could observe, there are always people coming and going. We do have bigger hard disks than 128 gb so the quota in a…

FWIW you can get the ClearDB or Xeround addon (MySQL) for free on Heroku.

Post by yahelc » Sat, Sep 08, 2012, 9:52 PM UTC

rdevnull wrote: post #14

mdasen wrote: post #9

The initial question that comes to mind is: how will this be sustainable? It's all well and good to offer this service, but will it be a drain on your finances 6 months down the road? Will it become a drain if more than 250 people sign up for it? I understand that one can get a server with 128GB of SSD storage, quad core, and 16GB of RAM for around $100/mo if one looks enough, but that would only serve 256 people at…

Hello Mdasen ! thanks for your comment and the very good questions. To start with a quick answer: "Would you be able to offer the service if you had to spend $1,000/mo?" Yes :) At the moment we have 3 servers and we are far from full capacity. Of course nothing can scale to the infinite but, from what I could observe, there are always people coming and going. We do have bigger hard disks than 128 gb so the quota in a…

Post by dlsym » Sat, Sep 08, 2012, 10:33 PM UTC

Post by rdevnull » Sat, Sep 08, 2012, 11:11 PM UTC

Sharma wrote: post #28

rdevnull wrote: post #22

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sorry to hear that - perhaps the motivation/about you was too short? We have some pending applicants because of the short or vague information provided ..at any rate just drop me a line at dotgeek at 1 dot ai and I will activate it asap.

Thanks for the quick response and you are right I did not provide project specific details because I do not have at this moment.But yeah I was hoping to get some place so that if I start something I could use that.