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Costs like energy, admin, maintenance were included. The figures for on premise are NOT illustrative but real figures.

It is hard to believe how high cloud costs are.

If your startup survive next 6 months it is already more cost-effective to buy a server. And if startup fails you still have a server to run your next startup.

Isn't it how you save money by picking cheaper product instead of more expensive? We save by buying hardware and renting DC space. If we were using AWS we would not save.

Would be 1000% in our comparison

Did you see how much we saved comparing to AWS? We could even hire an admin for each of 850 servers and would still have money left. But we have only one person taking care of hardware replacements. That is enough for the whole setup.

I am bootstrapping a SaaS for 13 years. We are at $100M+ ARR and almost a hundred people. Still enjoying it. We've slowly built a strong team during these years and it is a real pleasure to participate and see them solve problems, innovate and iterate. There is nothing VC funding can offer that would make my life better or my work more enjoyable.

I am thankful to myself for ignoring VC funds and acquisition offers.

My advice would be to listen to yourself.

Fresh numbers are: 3115 servers 330K CPU cores 2.3PB RAM 50PB HDD 182PB SSD most of it is in Singapore

No boolean search yet.

There is a lot of intersection between Ahrefs tools and search. We were collecting web data for Ahrefs tools for 12 years, now we repurpose these data for Yep.

We do indexing ourselves and don't use any third-party APIs.