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Ask HN: Is server cost of your current startup/side-project affordable?

2 points by northfoxz2015 ↗ HN
Hi hackers, Is server cost of your current startup/side-project affordable? I'm now running a startup which generates about 10k ad sales per month. The server cost is about 2k, which almost took about 20% of my sales. I think it is expensive to run internet startups if you have no strong revenue stream. What do you guys think?

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stephenr
What are you serving that needs 2k a month of server resources?
setra
That sounds expensive to me for a server unless you are spending a massive amount on bandwidth or storage or something. A dedicated server on Hetzner costs around 50$ a month for 32 GB DDR4, gigabit with 30 terabytes a month (before throttle), and 4TB of drives.

https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/ex41

bartvk
I think you haven't given us enough information. What is included in this server cost? Is it managed? How many servers are we talking about? What kind of specs do they have?

Sounds like you're a non-technical founder and feel forced to trust your technical people.

PaulHoule
In any ordinary business where your running costs were 20% of revenue you'd think you were making out like a bandit.

If you were spending $10k a month to make $2k in revenue you'd have a problem.