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Probably the best/cheapest solution is: A) Get a Linode VM, put elastic search on it and have it load the text. Probably $20/month with that little text, tops.

Probably the best/cheapest solution is: A) Get a Linode VM, put elastic search on it and have it load the text. Probably $20/month with that little text, tops. B) Use something like KeyCDN to cache everything for long periods of time. I doubt it'll cost $50/month.

nothrabannosir 10y ago
A linode vm's cost is not measured in its price tag but in how much effort it takes to maintain. Updates, security advisories, hypervisor crashes, crashes under sudden unexpected load, crashes because you're on vacation and you are having too much uninterrupted fun, ... As a famous writer once said: "ain't nobody got time for dat."
- nine_k 10y ago
  How much money is git-scm going to lose if the search function is temporarily down? Maybe not enough to afford a solution with more nines.
  - nothrabannosir 10y ago
    The money it costs to get someone to fix it. That person isn't free, unless this is their hobby. It's not about uptime, it's about the service existing at all. Even if you are fine with an hour downtime per day; at the end of that hour, you'll still need to bring it back online. The "aaS" part is about taking that load off. The nines are a corollary. Concretely: a dedicated server leaves you with a lot of extra work. A packaged, managed service doesn't. E.g.: s3 for static files vs an nginx server on a VM. Even if they cost the same, s3 would still be a better option for git-scm.org.
- fictioncircle 10y ago
  > A linode vm's cost is not measured in its price tag but in how much effort it takes to maintain. Updates, security advisories, hypervisor crashes, crashes under sudden unexpected load, crashes because you're on vacation and you are having too much uninterrupted fun, ... If I had a choice between that and ~$1800/year? If you don't want to do sysadmin work at the rate of ~$300/hr, that is your business.

nothrabannosir 10y ago

A linode vm's cost is not measured in its price tag but in how much effort it takes to maintain. Updates, security advisories, hypervisor crashes, crashes under sudden unexpected load, crashes because you're on vacation and you are having too much uninterrupted fun, ... As a famous writer once said: "ain't nobody got time for dat."

nine_k 10y ago
How much money is git-scm going to lose if the search function is temporarily down? Maybe not enough to afford a solution with more nines.
- nothrabannosir 10y ago
  The money it costs to get someone to fix it. That person isn't free, unless this is their hobby. It's not about uptime, it's about the service existing at all. Even if you are fine with an hour downtime per day; at the end of that hour, you'll still need to bring it back online. The "aaS" part is about taking that load off. The nines are a corollary. Concretely: a dedicated server leaves you with a lot of extra work. A packaged, managed service doesn't. E.g.: s3 for static files vs an nginx server on a VM. Even if they cost the same, s3 would still be a better option for git-scm.org.
fictioncircle 10y ago
> A linode vm's cost is not measured in its price tag but in how much effort it takes to maintain. Updates, security advisories, hypervisor crashes, crashes under sudden unexpected load, crashes because you're on vacation and you are having too much uninterrupted fun, ... If I had a choice between that and ~$1800/year? If you don't want to do sysadmin work at the rate of ~$300/hr, that is your business.