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

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260 points scastiel | 3 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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Vegenoid ◴[18 Oct 24 15:40 UTC] No.41880433[source]▶
I think this is just the natural conclusion of the new generation of devs being raised in the cloud and picking a scalable serverless PaaS like Vercel as the default option for any web app.

A more charitable reading is that they pick the technologies that the jobs they want are hiring for, even if they don’t make sense for this simple application.

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diggan ◴[18 Oct 24 15:53 UTC] No.41880565[source]▶
> I think this is just the natural conclusion of the new generation of devs being raised in the cloud and picking a scalable serverless PaaS like Vercel as the default option for any web app.

I'm not sure, I'm also "new generation of devs" I suppose, cloud had just entered the beginning of the hype cycle when I started out professionally. Most companies/individuals at that point were pushing for "everything cloud" but after experiencing how expensive it really is, you start to look around for alternatives.

I feel like that's just trying to have a "engineering mindset" rather than what generation you belong to.

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Vegenoid ◴[18 Oct 24 16:04 UTC] No.41880675[source]▶
Certainly, I just mean that we are hitting a point where there can be professional devs, with multiple years of experience at tech companies successfully building software, who have only ever known and worked with a PaaS to deploy an app.
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1. consteval ◴[18 Oct 24 19:31 UTC] No.41882683[source]▶
It's frustrating too because deployment technologies and tools continue to get better and better. It's never been easier to deploy an application + database to some arbitrary computer. You can do it declaratively, no SSH, no random shell scripts, no suspicious fiddling.

Also, sidenote: but for small stuff you can just deploy in your home. I've done it before. It's really not that scary, and odds are you have a computer laying around. The only "spooky" part is relying on my ISP router. I don't trust that thing, but that can be fixed.

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2. majoe ◴[19 Oct 24 09:06 UTC] No.41886624[source]▶
>It's never been easier to deploy an application + database to some arbitrary computer. You can do it declaratively, no SSH, no random shell scripts, no suspicious fiddling.

May I ask, what you are using?

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3. consteval ◴[21 Oct 24 14:22 UTC] No.41904502[source]▶
Ansible + Docker. The only "catch" is you still have to manage the host. It's trivial with Debian stable, and really the goal is to have a little on the host as possible and as much containerized as possible, so you can automate.