The beginning of a new year has many looking at budgets. Many times these budgets revolve around one year. Service providers out there have caught onto this and have pricing set around an annual budget.
I took a good hard look at continuing to use an offsite dedicated server (or EC2) and compared it to the cost of getting purchasing a server and having Clydesdale Software host it using Comcast Business Class internet. Of course these are not mission critical internet based services I’m speaking of, they are my operational in nature to Clydesdale Software.
The first thing to consider is does the company have the expertise and resources internally to take ownership over it? I’m not just talking about IT stuff, same thing could be said about accounting.
In Clydesdale Software’s case the answer was yes, the expertise is there. So the way the savings break down is the first year looks the same as having a dedicated server offsite but then every year after that there is a significant saving providing that the in house server that was purchased is still going strong.
This is just one example of how looking at a longer term for budgets can provide saving.