Tech Project Costs

Commenters estimate and debate the CapEx, OpEx, hardware, personnel, and infrastructure expenses for various technology projects, services, audits, and rollouts.

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IT NOAA AWS CapEx OpEx PR AIS FTE wccftech.com www.sans cost costs 100k year 000 month 000 year ais 100 hire

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ghc • Feb 12, 2020 • View on HN

Fine print: But it might cost you $300K CapEx or $800K/yr OpEx. Hope you have a budget!

frsandstone • Dec 9, 2014 • View on HN

What do you think it costs Segment to do this? $20,000?

tjr • May 1, 2013 • View on HN

At $125/hour and $5000 for servers, $10-20k could be spent up in a couple weeks or so. That seems pretty reasonable, and certainly not as absurd as $327 million, which would amount to about 1200 years of FTE effort.

rhizome • Mar 29, 2011 • View on HN

Even with all of the overhead I doubt it's more than $2M.

JoBrad • Oct 19, 2022 • View on HN

I’m guessing that $150k hardware fee is supposed to cover that.

achompas • Apr 15, 2015 • View on HN

Given their location data and technology stack, I wouldn't be surprised if you've underestimated their spend by an order of magnitude (eg. $100-200k/month, ~$1.2-2.4M/year).

AndyJames • Oct 3, 2023 • View on HN

I would say even less because you have to take into account all the costs of hosting, dev machines, laptops, testing, travel etc. $1 million for such huge project is peanuts this days.

panpanna • Aug 23, 2019 • View on HN

I just took 640+129/3Anyway, few hundred dollars added or subtracted doesn't really change the point. This is a fairly cheap operation given what it provides.

roofwellhams • Apr 28, 2021 • View on HN

What about accountants, paperwork, bank account fees... 1000 usd easy per year

lawrenceduk • Oct 6, 2020 • View on HN

I think we run about $100,000/year of this in production. Ouch.