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Running an open source app: Usage, costs and community donations

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260 points scastiel | 2 comments | 18 Oct 24 14:35 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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diggan ◴[18 Oct 24 14:59 UTC] No.41880040[source]▶
Do I read something wrong, or does the stats amount to ~400 daily visitors with ~2500 page views per day? That's about ~1.7 requests per minute... And they pay $115/month for this?

I'm 99% sure I'm reading something wrong, as that's incredible expensive unless this is hosting LLM models or something similar, but it seems like it's a website for sharing expenses?

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roflmaostc ◴[18 Oct 24 15:02 UTC] No.41880064[source]▶
Yeah, I'm confused too. Running some sort of VPS would totally do the job, no?
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1. diggan ◴[18 Oct 24 15:13 UTC] No.41880173[source]▶
I'm fairly sure you could host this on a last-gen Raspberry PI at home, if you live close to where your users are :)
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2. Aachen ◴[18 Oct 24 20:01 UTC] No.41882953[source]▶
Definitely don't need a last gen. Someone else did the math upthread and came to one request every 20 seconds, which if you factor in burstiness and that if you have a particularly bad burst that slows down the system a little, the next request will take even longer etc. (ask me how I learned that lesson), it's probably good to budget for it handling multiple requests per second. For this application, my understanding is you've got a handful of people in your group that you're splitting a couple of expenses with, so data processing is small beans and that'll definitely run on a first gen Pi if you optimise it properly, or perhaps a 2nd-3rd gen if you don't want to spend the time