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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: 0.457s | source
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hahahacorn ◴[18 Oct 24 21:22 UTC] No.41883616[source]▶
The inefficiency is bonkers but understandable. I could host this app for like ~$60/year, generously, with little to no devops work. It's painful to see the creator paying out of pocket for such a great project because the Vercel marketing introduced such massive inefficiencies to the ecosystem.

Even less when I pay for a dedicated machine running all of my hobby projects. Gratuitous Kamal 2 plug. Run your personal projects all on one machine.

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1. JamesonNetworks ◴[18 Oct 24 21:28 UTC] No.41883655[source]▶
Where would you host this for $60 a year?
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2. misiek08 ◴[18 Oct 24 21:32 UTC] No.41883696[source]▶
I would use hosting with SSH access. I am based in Poland so we have MyDevil.net But also you can just rent VPS for 5$, but you have to care about setting everything up.

First thing I thought while reading was Firebase - it's interesting how much it would cost there.

3. hahahacorn ◴[18 Oct 24 23:50 UTC] No.41884506[source]▶
hetzner cpx11 in Ashburn - 150 ms latencies to Europe are totally fine for this use case. with 15k groups and 162k expenses (guesstimating 30k users, email logs per-expense, etc.) , you're not even pushing 2 gigabytes of disk space (conservatively), nor are you doing anything computationally expensive or stressful for the DB under normal load. With decent app & db design, like proper indexing, 2 vCPUs and 2gb RAM is more than enough.