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Negotiating with our Apple rep, since we already have two 100 tpm licenses, the upgrade cost for the unlimited license on a single-CPU machine is $10,000. Our single G3 can now handle 500 tpm without breaking a sweat, so now we're limited by either the two T1's in the case of nile.com or the database in the case of yippee.com. Just for the hell of it, we add more RAM to both G3's for another $2K. Total cost: $12,000
Next page: Scaling step #7: More network Power!
| Nile.com bottom line: | ||
| Initial Engineering | $72,000 | |
| HW investment: | $221,700 | |
| Network: | $2000/month. | |
| Max ppm: | 240 (limited by 2 T1 lines) | |
| Max profit: | $1,152,000/month |
| Yippee.com bottom line: | ||
| Initial Engineering | $24,000 | |
| HW investment: | $221,700 | |
| Network: | $1000/month. | |
| Max ppm: | 320 (limited by database at 8000 tpm) | |
| Pages/day: | 153,600 | |
| Max users: | 6,144 | |
| Cost per user/month: | $4.49 |