{"id":1383,"date":"2005-04-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/otava.test\/calculating-internet-costs-per-customer\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T10:41:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T10:41:47","slug":"calculating-internet-costs-per-customer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.otava.com\/blog\/calculating-internet-costs-per-customer\/","title":{"rendered":"Calculating Internet Costs Per Customer"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_do_you_spend_per_customer_for_your_internet_offerings\"><\/span>What do you spend per customer for your internet offerings?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>One of the many promises of the Internet is the ability to hyper-scale. Contrast that to a store front. While your local coffee shop with 5 or so patrons might get a flood of 20, a website might go from a few dozen to a few 1000s in a split second. So how does a responsible CTO calculate and communicate Internet costs per &#8220;unit&#8221; to the executive team? It&#8217;s hard but really important to calculate. Generally your budget won&#8217;t support an infinite number of users &#8211; especially at first.<\/p>\n<p>So, you have to decide what level you want to support. Getting a grip on cost\/unit is a critical tool to make that decision and a great benchmark to work to improve over time. As you purchase the necessary services (servers, hosting, bandwidth, storage, backup etc.) calculate your total cost\/customer so you can help your CEO manage to it.<\/p>\n<p>PXGNF8HZ8AVF<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do you spend per customer for your internet offerings? One of the many promises of the Internet is the ability to hyper-scale. Contrast that to a store front. While your local coffee shop with 5 or so patrons might get a flood of 20, a website might go from a few dozen to a few 1000s in a split second. So how does a responsible CTO calculate and communicate Internet costs per &#8220;unit&#8221; to the executive team? It&#8217;s hard but really important to calculate. Generally your budget won&#8217;t support an infinite number of users &#8211; especially at first. So, you have to decide what level you want to support. Getting a grip on cost\/unit is a critical tool to make that decision and a great benchmark to work to improve over time. As you purchase the necessary services (servers, hosting, bandwidth, storage, backup etc.) calculate your total cost\/customer so you can help your CEO manage to it. 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