thesbaine t1_j8e89s8 wrote on February 13, 2023 at 5:43 PM

Reply to comment by Weary_Ad7119 in PennDOT charges $6 more for online license renewal? by exhilaration

Breakdown time:

In 2019 there were just over 9,000,000 licensed drivers in PA. Assuming about 50% renewed online, and assuming an even spread over 4 years, you're talking 1,250,000 renewing per year online. That's $6,750,000 per year.

There's no way that the SLA, maintenance, hardware costs, and plugins cost that per year alone. If it does, going back to an initial statement, something is very, very wrong.

Weary_Ad7119 t1_j8e8ukz wrote on February 13, 2023 at 5:47 PM

A 6 million dollar a year CMS with integrations is pretty common at the federal level. I don't think the economics would change that much at the state level for a critical site 🤷‍♂️.

raven4747 t1_j8ea77y wrote on February 13, 2023 at 5:56 PM

really? the federal level only encompasses 50 states, i guess its not that different.. /s

Weary_Ad7119 t1_j8efim5 wrote on February 13, 2023 at 6:31 PM

But the complexity doesn't scale with users. Sure you might have more AWS or Azure costs, but you are still left with the complexity of a CMS with multiple integrations. You still going to need an SLA/support comparible with any federal run CMS. It might be even harder depending on budgets around supporting services.