So we got a new client, he wanted to migrate from a previous service provider to us. We have built a web agency thats cutting edge, we have developed automation to such an extent that manual labor is reduced by 90%, and we are aggressively pursuing Artificial Intelligence.

My friend asked how much the infrastructure of the new client will cost, I said a price that would baffle him, it was just 1/400th the price of the previous service provider that had been milking our to be client. My friend flew on a rage, ‘you open source people just think about cost, there are other aspects there is service, value and business angle’ he said.

Then I gave an another quote thats 12 time larger than the previous one and said you can pay and buy beefy machines if you like, none stops you, but for this project this look enough.

The global server prices have fallen. We don’t rely on Amazon, Rackspace, Heroku and stuff like that, we just simply use our own trusted server bank that has enough replication to prevent data loss. To our surprise we found our offering to be faster than Digital ocean.

Digital Ocean is just a startup, which means that it barks and markets a lot than it bites and does real stuff. Something is wrong with their server which take lot of time to respond. And Amazon AWS is far worst, one would never know why it stops or starts all of a sudden and why it lags more. Too much virtualization I suppose.

People who are in the closed source, in the Microsoft camp can’t imagine if something is darn cheap it can be good. They simply lack imagination. Possibly they will value shit more higher than gold if some one can sells it to them at greater price. And people who are in Microsoft, and Apple technological products are doing just that, they are selling shit and are feeling good about it because you have paid a higher price.

Somehow free software people I see are able to look beyond the money and corporate glare, possibly none is trying to make them dumb, or possibly they are more democratic or something. They seem to have more common sense.