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I am unclear on how 80*12 dollars is profitable, altho, I guess if you only worked on this 70 mins a day for a year, I guess that comes out to 4 dollars an hour, but you must have worked on this on the weekends as well...

I guess you are only factoring the cost of servers, not your own time.




Heh, I am not counting my time as a cost. I am merely factoring in the cost of servers and bandwidth.

3 servers:

    - App server: 1GB, $40 / month
    - DB server: 512MB, Postgres/MongoDB, $20 / month
    - Task server: 512MB, Celery/RabbitMQ, $20 / month


If you're using Rackspace (the costs above are similar to it), you can use reserved instances on EC2 and save yourself quite a bit of money.


Maybe he meant breaking even? I don't think a salary is included in that figure... at least I hope not ;-)




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