> Then even if you're only at millions per month you've probably got problems.
Not in my experience. You may be using metrics for B2C websites which make $1 for each 1 million hits.
B2B works a little differently: you're not putting everyone on the same box, for starters.
I did some contract maintenance for a business recently (had no tech staff of their own, had contracted out their C# based appdev to someone else decades ago and just need some small changes now), and a busy internal app serving about 8000 employees was running just fine off a 4GB RAM VPS.
Their spend is under $100/m to keep this up. No async anywhere. No performance problems either.
So, sure, what you say makes sense if your business plan is "make $1 of each 1 million visitors". If you business plan is "sell painkillers, not vitamins" you need maybe 10k paying users to pay yourself a f/time salary.
Not in my experience. You may be using metrics for B2C websites which make $1 for each 1 million hits.
B2B works a little differently: you're not putting everyone on the same box, for starters.
I did some contract maintenance for a business recently (had no tech staff of their own, had contracted out their C# based appdev to someone else decades ago and just need some small changes now), and a busy internal app serving about 8000 employees was running just fine off a 4GB RAM VPS.
Their spend is under $100/m to keep this up. No async anywhere. No performance problems either.
So, sure, what you say makes sense if your business plan is "make $1 of each 1 million visitors". If you business plan is "sell painkillers, not vitamins" you need maybe 10k paying users to pay yourself a f/time salary.