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On User Density


My last post discussed cost of revenue related to delivering a SaaS-offering to a subscriber base. Shortly after publishing it, I noticed that Gianpaolo Carraro posted this article, which toward the end discussed the relationship between cost and electricity/space within a datacenter. A while back, Gianpaolo described another metric: tenants per database and he described it […]

Running a SaaS Business Costs Money?!?


Being in the SaaS platform space, one of my passions (yes, really) is to breakdown the SaaS provider model and figure out where costs are. The one area that is most intriguing is cost of revenue (CoR) - that is, costs directly associated with delivering the service to end users. This cost generally includes, but is not limited […]