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I don't get it. You're hosting a service that allows users to store JSON for free? Why? Have you thought about what happens to your expenses when potentially hu
by techie128 7y ago
I don't get it. You're hosting a service that allows users to store JSON for free? Why? Have you thought about what happens to your expenses when potentially hundreds or thousands of people use it?
- mrich 7y agoYou start charging for access.
- olau 7y agoMaybe the author wants to improve our world? It looks like this is for people with modest needs. Thousands of people shouldn't be a problem at all, with the right architecture. And if we're talking millions of people, surely some of the can be persuaded to donate a small amount? Hosting isn't that expensive if you go outside the enterprise cloud bubble.
- ctas 7y agoWhat's supposed to happen to his expenses? You assume that the creator is running the service on a host with auto-scaling enabled? If it runs on $5 DO droplet it will simply not be able to handle all requests. Sounds fine to me for a free service.
- ivanhoe 7y agoYou say: "Sorry, we need to start charging" and then out of those hypothetical thousands of people some will decide it's cheaper to pay the service than rewrite their code, so you get yourself some customers...