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I'd love to know the monthly cost for using all of those hosted tools. Sounds very expensive.


Good question, let me try to answer. I'm doing this out of memory so some might be wrong: - DropBox is $99 a year for 50Gig - we get Confluence hosted for free because we're a successful Atlassian plugin developer - I forget how much Last.fm is but I think it's very cheap, plus the free version is plenty good enough - I think we're paying about $250/month for Slicehost right now - a SkypeIn number is $60/year I think - we're spending $34/month for Freshbooks - we're spending $49/month for GetSatisfaction because we signed up at the very beginning (they had an offer) - E-Junkie is $10/month - Paypal pro is $30/month (I think) - Spreedly is $19/month

That's pretty much it! What does it add up to? In general, I can tell you that it's a very small percentage of our expenses (salaries is where our $$ goes)...in a way we can't afford NOT to use these tools.


Depending on what you're doing, you can definitely save money and get similar service with Linode:

http://journal.dedasys.com/2008/11/24/slicehost-vs-linode

Basically, with Slicehost, you are paying to have 64 bit pointers - without that, the price difference isn't that big.


Never change a running system!

I would never change my hosting company if I would be fully satisfied and I would only be saving 100$ a month.




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