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Congratulations! One thing I would like to especially note is the cost of hosting. It is currently at $382. That's fantastic.

There many Show HN here that have domains that don't even resolve anymore. They spend a large chunk of their money on hosting and can't sustain it long enough. They have no choice but to stop paying for it.

You don't have to start with an expensive AWS instance and eat all your budget. Go with cheap yet excellent options like linode or digitalocean. Eventually when you meet those bottlenecks, move to more scalable solutions.

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I pay about $60/mo on digitalocean for a side project that brings in about $65k/mo now. Digitalocean is severely underrated for startups.

project: https://www.indiehackers.com/product/crave-cookie

At what point does a $65k/mo side project stoping being a side project? That’s a boat load of cash every month.

That depends on what the margins are like. He's delivering cookies via the post so the COGS will be significant.

Wow that’s amazing. I always said pay as much to the customer spending $5/mo as tens of thousands because who knows what they can build.

Congrats on the success and hopefully more to come.

Never under estimate a good cookie!

Thanks! The hosting costs are a little higher than normal. We moved our servers recently and are paying double for some little ones. We are using a bare metal server for our main database and app. That works very well for us an it doesn't hit any limits.

We use a Dell R240 1x Intel Xeon E-2174G with 64 GB RAM and 2x480GB SSD in RAID 1. We didn't want to use Linode or Digitalocean because they are not based in Europe which has the best privacy laws in place.

That's awesome. Did you just get a dedicated server from a provider (I'm assuming, since you're paying monthly?) or did you buy the server and colocate it?

We are using https://www.leaseweb.com/dedicated-servers#NL which is indeed a monthly contract.

Linode employee here - Linode is compliant with GDPR regulation, EU-US Privacy Shield, and Swiss-US Privacy Shield.

More info here: https://www.linode.com/legal-compliance/

Our Privacy Shield certificate is here: https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000TRDi...

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