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If you don't have an idea of how many users to expect, your server costs are an unknown too. I don't see how paying per view will change that.
by oh_sigh 7y ago
If you don't have an idea of how many users to expect, your server costs are an unknown too. I don't see how paying per view will change that.
- ElFitz 7y agoUnless gp doesn't use any sort of auto scaling what so ever. In which case, the cost will be that of the (known) provisioned amount
- oh_sigh 7y agoThe equivalent to that would be to just buy e.g. the 100k users font license, and then stop serving traffic once you hit 100k.
- wolfgke 7y agoEven alone having to implement this (and perhaps become sued if there is a bug in the code) is a massive liability for the business.
- tptacek 7y agoAnd yet plenty of businesses use licensed fonts just fine, and, at the same time, literally nobody has to. What about this system is problematic?
- ElFitz 7y agoExcept that for most digital services / contents, a server is a core requirement, while any specific font isn't. I would not going to risk something as secondary to my business as font become a runaway cost, or stop providing my service / content because of something tangentially related to what I offer. And it seems gp feels the same.
- greggman3 7y agoA server requires energy and maintenance forever. A font does not.