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Author here ( @codemonkeyism ), ready to answer questions. Blog seems down, we're haven't been slashdotted for a long time, sorry! [Added some more caching, si

Author here ( @codemonkeyism ), ready to answer questions. Blog seems down, we're haven't been slashdotted for a long time, sorry! [Added some more caching, site works again slowly]

mabbo 8y ago
> Thanks to Google for giving us free Maps for some years This attitude is something I truly appreciate. So often posts like these are angry rants about 'how dare they do this to me'. You seem to presume good intentions, which should be the default reaction in life.
- ed_balls 8y ago
  One could argue that Google used search revenue for predatory pricing, which breaks anti-trust laws, to subsidise Maps and other services in order to build a monopoly.
- rejschaap 8y ago
  It seemed a bit passive aggressive to me, but maybe I'm reading into it too much.
  - _Codemonkeyism 8y ago
    Sorry English isn't my native tongue, didn't intend it to be passive aggressive but meant it.
- magduf 8y ago
  It kinda reminds me of someone thanking a cocaine dealer for giving them some free hits.
rashomon 8y ago
Any way you could copy the text in here or are there more relevant graphics?
- deleted 8y ago
  [deleted]
dpq 8y ago
Hi, why not set up Cloudflare to handle the traffic? Sorry if this sounds off topic.
- _Codemonkeyism 8y ago
  Oh this isn't that easy for GDPR reasons ;-) Also this is just the blog, I don't to play with DNS and risk site problems for our blog. But I've thought about it, thanks!
  - mrunkel 8y ago
    could you expand on that? What exactly is preventing you from proxying your blog through cloudflare? You're not processing customer data there are you?
    - _Codemonkeyism 8y ago
      No Cloudflare specialist, isn't Cloudflare depending on DNS mappings sending all domain traffic through Cloudflare? How would we send only www.eventsofa.de/blog through Cloudflare?
      - matt4077 8y ago
        You could switch to blog.eventsofa.de. That wouldn't solve today's traffic spike, and there are probably some lower-hanging fruits that should at the very least keep the site online. Anything sold in the last five years with an ethernet port should easily be able to handle a static site even during rare spikes in traffic. But the Cloudflare DNS configuration isn't something to be scared of: I used to feel similarly nervous when fiddling around with DNS, but haven't had a single problem configuring 20+ sites with Cloudflare. (I would, however, be slightly more nervous about google's reaction to the move to a subdomain this would require.)
        _Codemonkeyism 8y ago
        Thanks for the long feedback, we have a long tail of content in the blog so we won't migrate to a subdomain. Google says no problem, but we had SEO problems in the past when migrating subdomains although everything done by the book with redirects.
255kb 8y ago
What I don't understand is that you basically use an embedded map with a marker. But this remains free under the new pricing (I am using it on some of my projects) both on mobile and desktop, see there: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/embed/usage-and-billing https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/embed/usage... https://mapsplatformtransition.withgoogle.com/calculator https://mapsplatformtransition.withgoogle.com/calculator So what were you paying for?
- _Codemonkeyism 8y ago
  My understanding this works only for addresses and places, many of our customers want to move the marker around because default mapping doesn't reflect the location of their venue (ship, museum entry, backyard,...). Will add this clarification and your links to the article if site works again though, thanks. [Also currently not online are maps with search results, we removed to cut costs but will add back again]
aikah 8y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20181102141738/https://www.eventsofa.de/campus/migrating-away-from-google-maps-and-cutting-costs-by-99/ https://web.archive.org/web/20181102141738/https://www.event... > we're haven't been slashdotted for a long time, sorry! MapExample.png file is 1.1MB, it shouldn't be higher than 100KB given how little detail that picture has. Also 4.1MB of css for a page that has barely any styling? Whatever you are doing you might be losing potential customers because they are unable to access that page through HN, because of poor optimization and scaling.
- _Codemonkeyism 8y ago
  We use a CDN which reduces image size for our main site, not the blog though[0]. CSS is usually what the theme brings with it, but you're right of course. [0] something on my agenda
donalhunt 8y ago
Any plans to expand to other countries? Would love to see something like this in Ireland.
- _Codemonkeyism 8y ago
  Event venue market place? I already have stock images for Ireland and Irish cities, but it's not the top spot sadly for expansion (Though I would love to go there!)
gopi_ar 8y ago
Nice post! Seeing that you integrating with 2 different services, I'm wondering if you looked at other, more integrated, options? Mapbox, HERE and LocationIQ (shameless plug) are options that offer geocoding and maps.

Author here ( @codemonkeyism ), ready to answer questions. Blog seems down, we're haven't been slashdotted for a long time, sorry! [Added some more caching, site works again slowly]

mabbo 8y ago

> Thanks to Google for giving us free Maps for some years This attitude is something I truly appreciate. So often posts like these are angry rants about 'how dare they do this to me'. You seem to presume good intentions, which should be the default reaction in life.

ed_balls 8y ago
One could argue that Google used search revenue for predatory pricing, which breaks anti-trust laws, to subsidise Maps and other services in order to build a monopoly.
rejschaap 8y ago
It seemed a bit passive aggressive to me, but maybe I'm reading into it too much.
- _Codemonkeyism 8y ago
  Sorry English isn't my native tongue, didn't intend it to be passive aggressive but meant it.
magduf 8y ago
It kinda reminds me of someone thanking a cocaine dealer for giving them some free hits.

rashomon 8y ago

Any way you could copy the text in here or are there more relevant graphics?

deleted 8y ago
[deleted]

dpq 8y ago

Hi, why not set up Cloudflare to handle the traffic? Sorry if this sounds off topic.

_Codemonkeyism 8y ago
Oh this isn't that easy for GDPR reasons ;-) Also this is just the blog, I don't to play with DNS and risk site problems for our blog. But I've thought about it, thanks!
- mrunkel 8y ago
  could you expand on that? What exactly is preventing you from proxying your blog through cloudflare? You're not processing customer data there are you?
  - _Codemonkeyism 8y ago
    No Cloudflare specialist, isn't Cloudflare depending on DNS mappings sending all domain traffic through Cloudflare? How would we send only www.eventsofa.de/blog through Cloudflare?
    - matt4077 8y ago
      You could switch to blog.eventsofa.de. That wouldn't solve today's traffic spike, and there are probably some lower-hanging fruits that should at the very least keep the site online. Anything sold in the last five years with an ethernet port should easily be able to handle a static site even during rare spikes in traffic. But the Cloudflare DNS configuration isn't something to be scared of: I used to feel similarly nervous when fiddling around with DNS, but haven't had a single problem configuring 20+ sites with Cloudflare. (I would, however, be slightly more nervous about google's reaction to the move to a subdomain this would require.)
      - _Codemonkeyism 8y ago
        Thanks for the long feedback, we have a long tail of content in the blog so we won't migrate to a subdomain. Google says no problem, but we had SEO problems in the past when migrating subdomains although everything done by the book with redirects.

255kb 8y ago

What I don't understand is that you basically use an embedded map with a marker. But this remains free under the new pricing (I am using it on some of my projects) both on mobile and desktop, see there: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/embed/usage-and-billing https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/embed/usage... https://mapsplatformtransition.withgoogle.com/calculator https://mapsplatformtransition.withgoogle.com/calculator So what were you paying for?

_Codemonkeyism 8y ago
My understanding this works only for addresses and places, many of our customers want to move the marker around because default mapping doesn't reflect the location of their venue (ship, museum entry, backyard,...). Will add this clarification and your links to the article if site works again though, thanks. [Also currently not online are maps with search results, we removed to cut costs but will add back again]

aikah 8y ago

https://web.archive.org/web/20181102141738/https://www.eventsofa.de/campus/migrating-away-from-google-maps-and-cutting-costs-by-99/ https://web.archive.org/web/20181102141738/https://www.event... > we're haven't been slashdotted for a long time, sorry! MapExample.png file is 1.1MB, it shouldn't be higher than 100KB given how little detail that picture has. Also 4.1MB of css for a page that has barely any styling? Whatever you are doing you might be losing potential customers because they are unable to access that page through HN, because of poor optimization and scaling.

_Codemonkeyism 8y ago
We use a CDN which reduces image size for our main site, not the blog though[0]. CSS is usually what the theme brings with it, but you're right of course. [0] something on my agenda

donalhunt 8y ago

Any plans to expand to other countries? Would love to see something like this in Ireland.

_Codemonkeyism 8y ago
Event venue market place? I already have stock images for Ireland and Irish cities, but it's not the top spot sadly for expansion (Though I would love to go there!)

gopi_ar 8y ago

Nice post! Seeing that you integrating with 2 different services, I'm wondering if you looked at other, more integrated, options? Mapbox, HERE and LocationIQ (shameless plug) are options that offer geocoding and maps.