List of public RSS Box instances

[stefansundin]

As the public Heroku instance is coming to an end (#61), I wanted to create this discussion to serve as a directory of public RSS Box instances that I and other people host.

If you want to share your own public instance then please comment below. Thank you for helping the community!

If you want to donate to support RSS Box then the best option is to use GitHub sponsors. If that doesn't work then another easy option is to use this PayPal link.

Public instances provided by Stefan

Note: These instances are quite slow so please do not overload them!

• https://rssbox.fly.dev/
• https://rssbox.us-west-2.elasticbeanstalk.com/
  • This one might stop working at some point (probably in a year or two) since I don't like Elastic Beanstalk anymore. (I don't think I ever liked it actually)

Public instances provided by others

None so far

[stefansundin]

If anyone started self-hosting RSS Box on fly.io then please make sure you are using a shared IPv4 address instead of a dedicated IPv4 address. They forgot to tell people they were going to charge for dedicated IPv4 addresses, and while NEW applications now get a shared IPv4 address by default, old applications retain their dedicated IPv4 addresses.

TL;DR: If you created your fly app around the same that I made the transition to fly myself, then you will need to run a few commands to migrate to a shared IPv4 address.

Here's their help article: https://fly.io/docs/reference/services/#shared-ipv4

I had to run these commands:

fly ips list
fly ips allocate-v4 --shared
fly ips release OLD_IPV4_ADDRESS_HERE

If you're impacted then you would probably have seen a surprise bill the other day, as they forgot to tell people about this change. They are refunding this, but I haven't seen anything saying that they will automatically migrate people to shared IPv4 addresses. So please check your app if you have one.

https://community.fly.io/t/we-are-going-to-start-charging-for-dedicated-ipv4-in-january-1st/15970/47