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

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260 points scastiel | 1 comments | 18 Oct 24 14:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.203s | source
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Dachande663 ◴[18 Oct 24 14:51 UTC] No.41879983[source]▶
I love the idea of this but, given the traffic numbers, this could run on a $4 Digital Ocean droplet and have the same result. They've burnt over a grand just to use vercel. Maybe I'm just older but I don't understand the logic here. A basic VPS, setup once, would have the same result and would be neutral in cost (it's how I run my own little free apps). Maybe the author is lucky enough that $100/mo doesn't really affect them or they're happy for it to pay for the convenience (my assumption).
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scastiel ◴[18 Oct 24 14:53 UTC] No.41880001[source]▶
Running a database accessed that many times on a $4 Digital Ocean droplet? I'd be very curious to see that ;)

The web hosting costs basically nothing. Most of the cost comes from the database.

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1. bdlowery ◴[18 Oct 24 18:47 UTC] No.41882316[source]▶
https://f5bot.com/ was free for like 8 years and it processed hundreds of thousands of db records a day, and it barely cost anything.