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That's a good point but typically larger customers already have infrastructure they can put this on, as it's fairly low overhead, works across OSes (with a bit of config in some cases), and doesn't require anything specialized. It can be added to their existing cloud or baremetal at minimum marginal cost.

Strictly speaking, even if you were to go with a public cloud provider, and set up new infra specifically for BrowserBox Pro, you can essentially get an infra cost/seat/month of < USD1 anyway--making it still cheaper than Cloudflare, at least at scale above 100 seats.



In your tutorial here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGUJCCPDWNE you're using linode 4gb ram 2cpu with dedicated CPU which costs $36/month. So how you can realistically get less than <$1 cost/seat/month?


I thought I was using a shared machine in that tutorial?

Anyway that was just picked without reason for a demo. Basically Linode and that price sheet are not the only options, and you can do things like collocating on time and machine. We do it. It's solid. We can't give away all our secrets here tho.


Sorry for the late reply, but fair enough. Thanks for answering my question.


You're welcome. We keep an eagle eye on these important threads! :)




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