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Originally Posted by Foster
In related news, FIRST raised the cost of the initial registration and event by $1800. (*)
(*) Outsourcing / cloud services are not the inexpensive panacea that many people think. Yea, Yea "well I can spin up an Amazon instance in just a few seconds" sounds easy as heck in a robotics forum, not so easy to do in the real world, especially if you need to manage 1000 transactions per second for any time period.
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Not too much experience here but that's why I am asking.
Would an upgrade to the website for the registration period really cost $5,400,000+ ($1,800*3000+)? It wouldn't even have to be on the upgraded servers for the entire year. This number seems exuberantly high.
After talking with the students on these teams I could see the light in their eyes. These were their robots! Inspired? That would be a definate YES! - Steve W [more] 
09-26-2016, 10:09 AM
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