[dubcanada]

Ya he seems to be using an extremely expensive BaaS and asking for sponsors.

This could literally just be a single PHP files hosted for $1 a month unlimited bandwidth shared host or even free tiers that are available.

So it does seem a bit weird to ask for a sponsor for hosting costs while also using one of the most expensive options.

[wraptile]

I'm not sure if I'm reading this project correctly but aren't all of the icons already hosted on github for free? This whole website can be hosted for free on github pages with one javascript script for search, right?

[_bin]

No, he's pulling the individual ones from firebase storage. That's also why the webpage displays "0 icons" for a second after it loads; it has to go fetch the icon total from firebase.

[elrumo]

The issue is not actually hosting, all the icons are lazy loaded. I'm pulling the data about the icons from Firestore which include a URL for the png and the .icns file. Right now I'm looking at alternatives, I'm aware this is not the most efficient thing, but I just haven't had time to change it since it blew up last Friday. For reference, last week we had a little less than 1000 icons, and today there's almost 2000.

[wraptile]

yeah but the icons are already on github aren't they? Why are they on reduntly hosted on firebase? This whole website can be free on github pages - very confusing.

[elrumo]

Because I stopped using GitHub to submit icons to let non techies submit them, GitHub is all good for static sites but I needed something that would let uses submit icons directly from the website without needing to know how to use GitHub, here is a thread I created that explains it all better: https://twitter.com/elrumo/status/1328860367850758146?s=21

I’ll be moving away from Firebase into something that more sense soon anyway, it was just an oversight from me as I not expected it to to get to 40k visits in just a few days, I was only expecting a few hundred a day.