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by leafac 1945 days ago
The most significant cost has been my time, but that’s my pet project in which I get to experiment with new technologies, so it pays off nicely.

Also, you can support me: Recurring (Patreon): https://patreon.com/leafac / One-time (PayPal): https://paypal.me/LeandroFacchinetti

In terms of server costs, it all runs smoothly on a $6/month DigialOcean droplet. Even when I end up on the front-page of HN (it’s the second time this happens). And there’s also the ~$10/year for the domain.

There’s actually a fun story behind this: The biggest constraint is bandwidth (~500GB/month). I was using S3 and at some point that’d amount to $50/month. But DigitalOcean droplets give you 1TB/month, so to save money I rearchitected the whole thing to just use the filesystem. It turned out to be simpler and nicer to maintain, too. Fewer moving parts.

Fun stuff…