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--- coop:math [2025-04-17 12:57] – brook
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   * A living wage salary is ~$50k ((https://www.livingwage.ca/rates))
   * A market rate salary for DevOps is ~$150k ((https://www.roberthalf.com/ca/en/job-details/devops-engineer))
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 To be clear, I'm only thinking in the 1~5 worker scale at the moment :)
+===== Sustainability At Different Sizes =====
+users is sustainable as a hobby. I'm already running my own mail server, now it just has a few more users on it, I've been here before and it's fine. I keep the servers patched and up to date, that's it. Once a year I answer a support question.
+users, side project: Almost the same as 10 users, but now the server is paid for, and maybe some upgrades. Answer a few support questions a month.
+users is a part time job, 30-50 hours a month: Still just one server, but bigger. Answer a few support questions each week. Spend some time thinking about upgrades, backups, monitoring, etc.. Slowly add some new features or services.
+users is a full time job. Basically the same as above, just with less free time. Hire contractors to do web design, help out with this or that.
+users, 2-3 full time workers, lots of shared responsibilities.
+k users, ~5 workers, ~2 business admin, support, sales, etc., ~3 operations and development.
+==== As A Coop ====
+Minimum size of a BC coop is 3 members, which could be supported full time at somewhere between 3k-5k users.
+After that, I think long term, robust sustainability probably kicks in around 10k users / ~5 workers. At that point, you can begin to absorb somebody suddenly leaving without it being a huge setback.