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not cheap you can get 30k pagesviews on GAE/github for paying nothing.

• jon-wood 10y ago
  The title is actually understating things a bit. This is $0.21 dollars both for ~30k page views of a static file, but also a fairly involved data processing pipeline which feeds into the generation of that static file.
  • diggan 10y ago
    Not sure why this even needs a backend though, as the post above you mentions, this could be made all in the frontend. Doesn't seem like very complicated math. However, then again $0.21 is not very much but, when it could be free...
    • detaro 10y ago
      How do you scrape external websites in the frontend? I guess you could rope some CI service with a free tier into service instead, updating a file on GitHub, but...
      • imtringued 10y ago
        It should be possible to scrape the data with AWS lambda and then just push the results onto github and let the browser deal with the data. All for free.
        • detaro 10y ago
          right, the delivery to the end user clearly could be optimized. I probably interpreted the parent comment wrongly.
        • cesnja 10y ago
          Is such use of Github in compliance with their terms of service? I've been thinking about using such public git providers to store small amounts of data, possibly encrypted. For example important documents that I don't want to lose. It seems that it'd be ok as long as you manually create the account.
          • flipp3r 10y ago
            There are even package managers which host all their data / indexes on Github ( https://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs/tree/master/Specs https://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs/tree/master/Specs ). I personally also back up encrypted data on Github.
          • admiun 10y ago
            Not really although you probably need to use quite a bit of traffic before it becomes a problem. Your example of personal use only seems fine. There was a post here a while ago (that I cannot find anymore) about the devs of a package manager of sorts who were asked kindly by Github to do something about their excessive data usage. So it's probably not a good idea to build a company on it.
            • mnkmnk 10y ago
              It was probably this- https://github.com/CocoaPods/CocoaPods/issues/4989#issuecomment-193772935 https://github.com/CocoaPods/CocoaPods/issues/4989#issuecomm...
        • icebraining 10y ago
          That sounds inefficient. Why force every client to repeat the work that can be done once on the server?
        • pyrale 10y ago
          That sounds like working for $0.21 a month, since if you don't get rid of lambda you don't really create an alternative.
  • tapirl 10y ago
    yes, on GAE, this is far under the free quota.