[foxly]

The level of arrogance with these guys is quite something.

Considering they're spending $211,000+ per year on hosting, and paying at least twice as much as they need to, it would be incredibly irresponsible not to spend the time to learn how to do devops and get these costs under control.

Since they're located in Canada, the amount of money they save could probably pay for a full-time in-house devops engineer.

This reminds me of EverPix, a photo storage company that went bankrupt because they couldn't pay their Amazon storage bill, yet considering that 99.99% of their photos were basically in 'cold storage', could have probably traded the majority of their $35,000/month S3 bill for a $8,000/one-off BackBlaze Storage Pod + colo fees.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/5/5039216/everpix-life-and-d...

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/storage-pod-4-5-tweaking-a-pr...

[wodenokoto]

> The level of arrogance with these guys is quite something.

Their arrogance?

[foxly]

Point taken. But when a startup brags about how they're burning $200K+ a year on something they probably don't need to, then follows it up with "we don't want to learn how to be more efficient", a tiny part of me dies.

DevOps isn't easy, but its not that hard.

[wodenokoto]

I didn't feel like the article was bragging, but it would be nice to have a discussion about how many of those services would be redundant in the face of a devOp, vs a devon yearly pay.

It might not be hard, but sometimes it is worth paying someone else to do the boring stuff so you can focus on your core competences.