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acyclicks  ·  3428 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Creator of Reddit Notes explains what he did at reddit and why he was hired

The 5k figure is just for one server, and it's 276 minutes instead of 476.

> you’re helping to pay for one of our many hundreds of servers to run for 4.6 hours.

Lower bound on "many hundreds" is probably around 300, meaning total costs are at least $2.2M, roughly at parity with your estimated payroll cost.





kleinbl00  ·  3428 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Appreciate you checking my math. So in other words, their profits are effectively zero. That does make things expensive.