Pinboard 2014 Expenses

He runs a really, really right ship. Off the top of my head I think the SaaS budget alone at my companies is larger than that.<p>That said, by the standards of physically extant businesses, it is ridiculous how far you can get on $1k or $2k a month.

They use Hetzner for dedicated servers, slicehost for VPS, 2 colocation services, and AWS cloud.<p>For a relatively small site, why do they need so many different hosting providers?

I wonder what other services would suit this small, &quot;artisinal&quot;, paid-for internet service model?<p>There&#x27;s some RSS readers and email providers. Photo hosting and blogging are too &quot;bulk&quot; and high-profile for this business model, probably.<p>I suspect the abuse&#x2F;takedown request workload is tiny, which helps a lot in keeping the cost down.

I&#x27;ve read so many terrible budget spreadsheets that I first I assumed it was all in thousands. Nice work on keeping the costs down!

Source: <a href="https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/494238943894700032" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;Pinboard&#x2F;status&#x2F;494238943894700032</a>

Is it me, or does $60-70&#x2F;month for DNS seem pretty high?

Pinboard is one of a few services I happily pay for. Honestly, I&#x27;d probably pay a subscription price for it. I&#x27;ve got 1041 bookmarks, it&#x27;s fast, searches and tags flawlessly, the unread functionality is super useful, and I&#x27;ve got some (unofficial?) android app that makes it a snap to use with my phone. Keep up the great work.

Does Hetzner has any proper competitor somewhere, with similar power&#x2F;price ratio? Especially interested in some on the US side of the pond. They seem to be a go-to company for everyone that wants to host stuff on his&#x2F;her own.

This is great information on just how little it takes to run a service like Pinboard, with hundreds of thousands of active users, on your own hardware. Just imagine how much more it would cost on Heroku or even AWS, just so you can avoid having to think about ops.

still happy i paid for pinboard a while ago.<p>the &quot;no-nonsense, speed first&quot; policy and the fact that it&#x27;s actually being executed are my favorite things about the service.

Maciej finally bought an iPhone! When I met him last year in Australia he uses his 15&quot; laptop to check his tweets.

About how much were the AWS expenses before moving to your own servers?

slicehost? :)

wat <a href="https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/494239839349268481" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;Pinboard&#x2F;status&#x2F;494239839349268481</a>

Don&#x27;t confuse Pinboard with Pinterest, which is thousands times bigger.<p>Pinterest active monthly users: 60 million<p>Pinboard active monthly users: 24 thousand

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