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jm4
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Ask HN: Is your company sticking to on-premise ser...
What kind of business is that? That level of spending seems insane based on headcount. At least without knowing anything about the business. Are you running public facing services or something? What does that look like as a percentage of revenue?
centimeter
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Infrastructure. Datacenter costs are a relatively high percentage of revenue. No public facing services - only large clients.
flokie
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It sounds like you are operating a cloud.....
SamBam
on May 6, 2020
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Sure... but at least they're not using the cloud! Just a whole bunch of servers!
pojzon
on May 7, 2020
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There is no cloud, its just someone else’s computer :)
Guest42
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Working at a medium-sized bank the data center costs were very significant.
derision
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How many employees do medium sized banks have?
Guest42
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This one had 600 on-site employees serving 12 million customers. Not sure how many were off-site.
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