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You have spectacularly avoided answering "How can it be free?" #114
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Funny. But I prefer dry and technical. Let's try to find an inclusive and somewhat professional tone. So we are talking about this section in the README: https://github.com/ihucos/counter.dev#how-can-it-be-free Here is the CPU usage of the VPS for the last 30 days. It is a "Nanode 1 GB" So we have a CPU peaking out at 24% on a 5$ VPS (See pricing here: https://www.linode.com/pricing/) To say some numbers on the usage side: There are some hundreds of active users and some millions of unique tracked pageviews in the last 30 days. To be fair the domain is a bit more expensive and I am also paying for a VPS snapshot service. These are the costs. Of course there is the time I put in, if you put a value at that we get a different order of magnitude. So is it free? Well, I guess no, there are resources involved in serving you. Is it working already since over two years? Yes. Will it continue to work for many years to come? I guarantee it. I hope that was concrete enough. I honestly am super happy about every single donation for the project. Cheers. |
Sorry I'm off the clock when I github...
Yes, that info, which is both dry and technical, makes a lot of sense and is exactly what I would expect to have seen given the question being asked. Compared to 'it's a small app, don't worry about it' (paraphrasing) -- I think would be a value add to that section. |
Ahh you mean to put the information about the real world resource usage and service usage in the README? Yeah, that would actually make sense. |
I updated the README. Thanks for the issue. |
My local politicians would like your number.
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