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krewast | 5 years ago | on: Don't make customers think about whether they should pay you

I'm the author and I can tell you that tipping is also very common in Germany (at least in restaurants). The big difference to the US is that 5-10% are considered enough because waiters already get a wage and don't entirely depend on tips. And yes, tipping happens after you already got the service.

krewast | 5 years ago | on: Pieter Levels Makes $600k a Year from Nomad List and Remote OK

You wrote in another comment that it is an "information rich" site. Has the absence of a search feature ever been a problem for you? Or did run into any issues that could have been easily solved with something like a WordPress plugin (if the site wasn't static, of course).

I'm asking because these are the things that bug me when it comes to this "static all day, every day" trend.

krewast | 5 years ago | on: Autodesk criticised by architects

> That really depends on how you budget

It depends on how big your budget is. If it's tight, the problem of purchasing expensive licenses at once may be a blocker - bad for the buyer AND the seller!

> This is 100% false, SaaS Opex Spend is FAR FAR FAR less flexible than CAPEX spend in the IT Space, take for example Office 365 Vs ONPrem, with OnPrem I can forgo a Capital expense to upgrade some servers, EOL a SAN disk array a year later, or choose to stick on Office 2016 for another year if needed.

I don't see how this proves that SaaS is not flexible? You also forgot to account for the necessary expenses to run all this On-Prem stuff. You need an expensive team that you pay on a monthly basis --> OPEX

> Now you do not pay your annual licensing fee well your software no longer works

I agree with you that this sucks.

> Still from a highly logical and engineering focus more than a Finance focus I will still look at $100k over 5 years or 20K annual to be the same...

You can look at it this way but that still doesn't make it (not even "highly logical") the same. Sorry.

krewast | 5 years ago | on: Autodesk criticised by architects

> bean counters and MBA's live in this mythical land where $100,000 over 5 years or $20,000 a year is some how different

There are differences and they are far from mythical!

A big one: Liquidity. If you spend $100,000 today, you all of a sudden have a $100,000 less in your bank account. That may limit what you and your team can do this year - because budgets are finite. If you have the option to pay $20,000 each year over 5 years your liquidity goes down by that amount each year. Much easier to plan and usually less risky.

Another one: Flexiblity. If you don't need the product or service after year 3 any more, stop it. You paid $60,000 instead of $100,000. Less. Money. Spent. (And yes, it also goes into the other direction (pay more than $100,000 if you use it longer) but that's a trade off many businesses are willing to make. 5 years is a long time, things change.)

Last but not least: Opportunity costs. Paying $100,000 at once is expensive because it means you can't invest the money into something else that generates interest. If you pay $20,000 each year it means, that you still have $80,000 in the first year, $60,000 in the second and so on. Use this remaining money to invest it into something that creates interest for you (bank account, stocks, index fund, ...). That's another win! (And also the reason why big companies pay their bills as late as possible - it adds up for them!)

krewast | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: Clever ways to run a media-heavy website on a budget?

How about Contabo? https://contabo.com/?show=vps

VPS XL: - Six cores - 30 GB RAM - 2000 GB Storage - 1 Gbit/s port - Unlimited traffic - 19.99 EUR/month

VPS XL SSD: - Ten cores - 50 GB RAM - 1200 GB Storage - 1 Gbit/s port - Unlimited traffic - 26.99 EUR/month

I'm running some personal projects on a VPS M SSD for a few years now and never had a problems. They are based in Munich, Germany.

Side note: I probably wouldn't recommend them for high availability, "hard core" production stuff but if you are on a budget and just want to try something out, why not?

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