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Ask DN: Best way to monetize Pttrns.com(pttrns.com)

almost 10 years ago from Robin Raszka, www.pttrns.com

  • Joe Blau, almost 10 years ago

    At the cost of $2k a month for that amount of views, it sounds like you need to hire a systems architect to refactor how the site is designed. The site could essentially be refactored to a static site running with a CDN. I would definitely look into optimizations of taking what is likely a bloated rails/node/ruby/java app and converting it to a static site with search powered by a third party search. You could probably cut your costs by 90% doing that.

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    • Robin RaszkaRobin Raszka, almost 10 years ago

      Probably, but for the future development and new features a static page isn't very versatile.

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      • Joe Blau, almost 10 years ago

        I've fallen into this same classic startup conundrum where I've justified over-complexity for future-proofing. If this project was architected in a way where you were cash positive every month 2k then I could see this rationale. There is a very slipper slope, one that I've fallen into many times.

        I'm not sure what your future plans are, but at current state this could be static and cost you next to nothing to host.

        One quick patch could be that you use a CDN to cache your assets. cloudflare.com is pretty good and very simple to use. The content isn't changing so you could set long TTL's which would reduce some load on your servers.

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    • Martin LeBlancMartin LeBlanc, almost 10 years ago

      I actually think you could keep the code as it is and just cache it heavily. There are few personalized elements on the site, so caching would be very effective.

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      • Joe Blau, almost 10 years ago

        Yeah, that's a great point. Without seeing exactly what is costing so much, it would be hard to tell if that would completely alleviate the problems.

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