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by janlaureys 2026 days ago
Didn't really know about this platform, but to me it looks like it could perfectly be kept in some kind of read-only mode without costing all that much for Google.
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The cost is ongoing maintenance of the code base, reponding to security issues and such, not the server hosting.
A read-only site would have very little of that sort of thing.
Static pages do not have a code base, they're just data to be served on demand.
Also it can’t really be read only because of things like GDPR compliance.
Could they open source it? Or does the codebase include Google secrets? I don't know much about this, just wondering...
There's no PM, so I'm just commenting way in the past. I'm guessing you're a guy who's neither a model, super rich, or hyper charismatic?
How much should Google pay for something that's not getting much usage?