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There are so many cheap hosting solutions, I do not understand why he does not keep this project as a hobby project in a kind of zomby state. All the clients w
by reacweb 10y ago
There are so many cheap hosting solutions, I do not understand why he does not keep this project as a hobby project in a kind of zomby state.
All the clients will be very sad that their (paid) application stop working.
- gadders 10y agoFrom the article, he still has to pay for font licensing.
- perlgeek 10y agoSubstituting the paid font(s) with freely available alternatives shouldn't be a big deal, no? Less pretty, but still usable.
- gadders 10y agoI would imagine so, but he didn't mention that option in the article.
- SyneRyder 10y agoGruber later mentioned on Twitter [1] that in some months they're paying more for servers than they're spending on the font in an entire year. (The font licensing is $299/yr [2], suggesting server costs around $3600/yr.) [1] https://twitter.com/gruber/status/768302562030202881 https://twitter.com/gruber/status/768302562030202881 [2] http://www.typography.com/apps/ http://www.typography.com/apps/
- Doctor_Fegg 10y agoCurious. You should be able to run an (evidently not that popular) text sync service on a Hetzner box for a fraction of that price. I wonder what was costing them $3600.
- lee_a 10y agoI'm not certain if it's still the case, but Vesper Sync was originally written using Azure Mobile Services. https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Windows-Azure/Learn-how-Vesper-built-offline-sync-using-Azure-Mobile-Services- https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Windows-Azure/Learn-how-Vesp... During many Azure ad spots on The Talk Show, it had also been mentioned that Vesper used it.