I am bidding on an application and I don't really know how to estimate the hosting costs assuming the application receives a large number of users. I think a high estimation of users is about 100,000/mo, maybe up to 1,000,000 page views per month. This is an optimistic estimate, but I have to expect the worst/best case, I will not have to chance to ask for more money if the hosting costs are above my estimates. Advertising to supplement income is out of the question.
Does anyone care to share their experience with applications this size?
A little about the app: It is written in php and reads from a mysql server and does basic data formatting. There is no ORM or framework, so db interaction is as fast as php/mysql will allow. I predict that page views will be spread out over a large number of URIs, so lets assume no caching.
One more thing, the app is simple enough to port to app engine or Heroku, would this be a lot cheaper than Joyent (my current provider)?
Thanks for the input!
Does anyone care to share their experience with applications this size?
A little about the app: It is written in php and reads from a mysql server and does basic data formatting. There is no ORM or framework, so db interaction is as fast as php/mysql will allow. I predict that page views will be spread out over a large number of URIs, so lets assume no caching.
One more thing, the app is simple enough to port to app engine or Heroku, would this be a lot cheaper than Joyent (my current provider)?
Thanks for the input!