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> Considering there is no revenue at all right now, and he’s likely spending thousands on hosting, he was probably dying to offload it. Thousands? It's a 60kb

by Syonyk 5y ago

> Considering there is no revenue at all right now, and he’s likely spending thousands on hosting, he was probably dying to offload it. Thousands? It's a 60kb Javascript file, seems quite static to all users, and appears to be cached and delivered from CloudFlare. I don't think their free accounts have bandwidth limits, just feature limits, so... it's probably more "pennies" on hosting than "thousands." Given the popularity of it, it's a good bet that it's almost always in the CF cache, so very few requests going through to the origin. This is more of a "You could host it on a home ISP" type project with how well caching systems handle it. Or toss it in a Google Cloud Storage bucket, which has reduced egress fees to CF and it'll still be constantly cached. Nothing I see indicates it's the slightest bit expensive to host.

gabrielsroka 5y ago
From an interview with the developer: > put Cloudflare in front of my website; then more recently, we migrated the hosting to Amazon S3, which can scale indefinitely as long as I’m happy to pay for it. ... > it does cost me a bit to keep the servers up to run Wordle https://techcrunch.com/2022/01/12/josh-wardle-interview-wordle/ https://techcrunch.com/2022/01/12/josh-wardle-interview-word...
- sugarpile 5y ago
  It shouldn’t… It would be free on github pages, netlify, and others. Cloudflare should make anywhere else effectively free, as well. It’s likely a decision to reuse whatever existing hosting/deploy strategy he uses for the rest of his site or just apathy towards spending however much is being spent.
  - admn2 5y ago
    Cloudflare Pages (their Netlifly / Vercel competitor) offers unlimited free bandwidth. Wonder why he switched to AWS?
  - gabrielsroka 5y ago
    To a large degree: https://docs.github.com/en/pages/getting-started-with-github-pages/about-github-pages#limits-on-use-of-github-pages https://docs.github.com/en/pages/getting-started-with-github...
nybble41 5y ago
Indeed, the app is completely client-side with static files, and it seems there is already a fully functional mirror of the current version on IPFS: https://bafybeic4blel5vf4il73n3nzt6vw7npsov6or3cp3myjms4npiihxgjut4.ipfs.dweb.link/wordle/ https://bafybeic4blel5vf4il73n3nzt6vw7npsov6or3cp3myjms4npii...
bambax 5y ago
Yeah, it should be almost free to host given that it's completely static.

by Syonyk 5y ago

gabrielsroka 5y ago

From an interview with the developer: > put Cloudflare in front of my website; then more recently, we migrated the hosting to Amazon S3, which can scale indefinitely as long as I’m happy to pay for it. ... > it does cost me a bit to keep the servers up to run Wordle https://techcrunch.com/2022/01/12/josh-wardle-interview-wordle/ https://techcrunch.com/2022/01/12/josh-wardle-interview-word...

sugarpile 5y ago
It shouldn’t… It would be free on github pages, netlify, and others. Cloudflare should make anywhere else effectively free, as well. It’s likely a decision to reuse whatever existing hosting/deploy strategy he uses for the rest of his site or just apathy towards spending however much is being spent.
- admn2 5y ago
  Cloudflare Pages (their Netlifly / Vercel competitor) offers unlimited free bandwidth. Wonder why he switched to AWS?
- gabrielsroka 5y ago
  To a large degree: https://docs.github.com/en/pages/getting-started-with-github-pages/about-github-pages#limits-on-use-of-github-pages https://docs.github.com/en/pages/getting-started-with-github...

nybble41 5y ago

Indeed, the app is completely client-side with static files, and it seems there is already a fully functional mirror of the current version on IPFS: https://bafybeic4blel5vf4il73n3nzt6vw7npsov6or3cp3myjms4npiihxgjut4.ipfs.dweb.link/wordle/ https://bafybeic4blel5vf4il73n3nzt6vw7npsov6or3cp3myjms4npii...

bambax 5y ago

Yeah, it should be almost free to host given that it's completely static.