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news.ycombinator.com 1mo ago

Content Distributor & tool builder

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news.ycombinator.com 2y ago

Iconic Outdoor Brand Seeks Visionary Leader for Equity-Only Partnership

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Where to find a CEO for my startup?

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news.ycombinator.com 6y ago

What is best options for a CMS for a 1000 page encyclopedia type site?

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news.ycombinator.com 6y ago

Can anyone point me to a free website mapping tool for a complex 1000 page site?

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news.ycombinator.com 6y ago

Open Source Survey / Data Collection Tool Reqd?

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www.parkmycloud.com 6y ago

Why Azure Databricks Usage Is on the Rise

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news.ycombinator.com 7y ago

Open Source BI / Charting Software

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zoom.us 7y ago

Interesting upcoming web event on using utilization data to reduce cloud costs

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www.parkmycloud.com 7y ago

10,000 Years of Data Says Your Server Sizing Is Wrong (AWS Azure GCP)

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www.parkmycloud.com 8y ago

How to Control Microservices Costs

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www.parkmycloud.com 8y ago

Why Your Spring Cleaning Should Include Unused Cloud Resources

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news.ycombinator.com 8y ago

Can anyone point me to some great single (physical) product ecomm sites?

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www.parkmycloud.com 8y ago

How Upgrade Cycles Impact the Cost per Instance in Cloud Computing

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www.parkmycloud.com 8y ago

How To: ChatOps Cloud Cost Control

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www.parkmycloud.com 8y ago

AWS vs. Azure vs. Google Cloud Market Share 2018: Is AWS Still in the Lead?

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news.ycombinator.com 9y ago

Anyone know a good replacement for archie.co for instagram growth?

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www.parkmycloud.com 9y ago

Google Cloud Platform – Reduce your monthly burn?

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www.parkmycloud.com 9y ago

Save big by shutting down your RDS instances on AWS

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www.parkmycloud.com 9y ago

An Open Letter to Snap: We can save you $80M on your cloud bills

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news.ycombinator.com 9y ago

Does anyone have data on average mth. cost of an instance (VM)in public cloud?

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aladdindreamer.com 9y ago

The Next Generation Wearable: Aladdin Lucid Dreaming Stimulator

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www.producthunt.com 9y ago

New Launch – If you ride a motorcycle and love tech this is for you --

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news.ycombinator.com 10y ago

Interested in motorcycles and tech?

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www.surveymonkey.com 10y ago

Help Us with Our AWS Cloud Priorities Survey and Win $100 Amazon Card

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www.parkmycloud.com 10y ago

Stop Using Your DevOps People to Clean Toilets

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news.ycombinator.com 10y ago

Can anyone point me to some great pitch decks for wearables?

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www.parkmycloud.com 10y ago

ParkMyCloud – now supporting team saving in AWS

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www.linkedin.com 10y ago

Hack the Strategy, Hack the Product

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www.parkmycloud.com 10y ago

Can You “ec2:Describe” Your Problem?

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This is 1967 again, except the hippies have RSUs, the commune is a low-cost-of-living zip code, and “dropping out” means waiting for the next vest before deleting Bluesky.

IMHO its www.parkmycloud.com

The single biggest optimization / cost saver in the cloud is to get your non-production instances onto schedules as almost universally they do not need to be running 24/7. There is nothing which will deliver bigger savings on your non-prod infrastructure.

Cloud is a utility and therefore needs to be used like a utility. What this means is you need to turn things off when they are not being used. Something like 50% of workloads in public cloud have 'the potential' to be turned off as they are non-production. The public cloud providers provided the easy button to spin things up but turning things off is more tricky. This is why we built www.parkmycloud.com Others have rolled their own scripts to achieve the same goal or use other methods to achieve the same goal albeit not as good as our solution ;)). Based on our analysis if you use Reserved Instances for Prod and schedule Non-Prod to be turned off when not being used, you will get a better overall ROI than on prem.

Personally I would look at real estate offshore and maybe look to purchase x4 apartments and put in place a local property manager. I hear Columbia is great right now or perhaps Southern and Eastern Europe (Estonia, Bulgaria, Georgia) are all interesting right now. Let the money grow offshore in a company account and then look to invest from there into other offshore ventures. Think and look globally....

Personally I just turn things off when they are not being used and that alone saves me 60% off my AWS bill. Obviously, it only works for non-prod instances but that is the bulk of what we use. see www.parkmycloud.com

I can tell you from the innovator side of things behavioral health is producing more interesting start-ups than almost any other part of health tech. The money is slow in coming as the business model / monetization is still unclear - beyond simple out-of-pocket models. I have seen some amazing prototypes in the last few months including a fair number in the big data / predictive analytics space which seek to identify early signs of depression and other MH conditions.

Most have not yet formed into fundable startups but they will and I have seen leaps in terms of iterating around these ideas.

Rather than Scheduled Reserved Instances you would still be much better off using On-Demand compbined with www.parkmycloud.com

Less cost plus a lot more flexibility...

Rather than Scheduled Reserved Instances you would still be much better off using On-Demand compbined with www.parkmycloud.com

Lower cost plus a lot more flexibility...