user_Jamesday wrote:
Total to handle being around the 200th most visited
English language site according to Alexa is over US$436 per day or US$0.30 per minute.
About 21 requests per cent including capital costs but that's misleading long term
because eventually we will stop needing to buy so much hardware.
What's the life expectancy on the hardware? None of it lasts forever. :-)
When you take capital costs as expenses it never gives an accurate
picture of current finances. Significant hardware purchases need to be
considered as assets which are expensed as depreciation over say 3 or 5
years. By then equipment will wear out and need to be replaced. On a
more positive side the new equipment which replaces the 5-year-old
equipment should have enough additional capacity to absorb part of the
new growth.
What have been the trends in growth. The month over month ratio of
changes in the number of requests may be useful in projecting future
needs. When the additional capacity afforded by replacement equipment
matches the rate of growth we will have reached some sort of economic
equikibrium.
Ec