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Beans: TextingBase server costs run about $900 monthly during infrastructure migration

Eric Beans · 776: TextingBase Shares Margins, Cap Table, Valuation, More · Sep 8, 2017 · at 6:52

Eric Beans details TextingBase's above-the-line operational expenses during an interview with Nathan Latka.

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“Our server costs run between 380 dollars, and now they're going to be more because we're actually running two concurrent server infrastructures while we do some additional porting over, so our server costs right now are running about 900 dollars a month.”

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TextingBase's server infrastructure costs are running at approximately $900 per month during a migration, compared to a baseline between $380 per month.

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