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I invite you to run your own popular blog on your own hardware and pay for the costs. It sounds like you don't know what the true costs are.

Twirrim 2y ago
OP has never said that this is about financial aspects of things.
- Joker_vD 2y ago
  Yews, it's about enforcing their preference on how others should interact with OP's published site feed, on principle. Which is always an uphill battle.
  - Twirrim 2y ago
    It's about enforcing that people follow standards. Which is still an uphill battle, but at least it's based in something sane. Their work on this has resulted in improvements to a whole slew of popular feed readers that should make life easier for a chunk of the internet, not just OP's own site.
that_guy_iain 2y ago
Sounds like you don't know how to scale for cheap. And since I've ran integrations that connected over 500 companies. I know what a rouge client actually looks like and 72 requests per day and I wouldn't even notice.
- EdwardDiego 2y ago
  Good on you champ.
donatj 2y ago
I do run a popular blog, and a $5 a month Digital Ocean droplet handles millions of requests per month without breaking a sweat.
- devjab 2y ago
  If every user is collecting 36mb a day like in the story here, your droplet wouldn’t even be capable of serving 500 users a month without hitting your bandwidth limit. With their current rates, your one million requests would cost you around 10 million USD.
  - sccxy 2y ago
    If OP enabled gzip then this 36mb would be 13mb. If OP reduced 30 months of posts in rss to 12 months then this 13mb would be 5mb a day. Using Cloudflare free plan and this static content is cached without any problem.
    - notpushkin 2y ago
      Yeah, but also... if RSS readers behaved correctly, it would be 512 kb. (170 kb with gzip, if she didn't enable it like you imply – I'm too lazy to check, but I assumed it was on.) I think making clients behave correctly is much more sustainable solution, although we could do better than doing so at the cost of the end users.
      - int_19h 2y ago
        This entire thread is a vivid illustration of why software is so shitty in general these days.
  - donatj 2y ago
    30 * 500 * 36mb = 560gb and I have 1tb a month on my apparently $6 droplet Correction - from my billing page it's $4.50 a month, from the resize page it is $6 so I'm guessing I am grandfathered in to some older pricing
    - tecleandor 2y ago
      That's ridiculously big quantity of data to serve a seldomly updated blog just because the client doesn't want (or know how, or think about) to implement an easy and old http method. Imagine the petabytes of data transferred through the internet saved if a couple RSS clients added that method.
sccxy 2y ago
More like a skill issue or just decision to make your life more difficult. It is free and easy to scale this kind of text based blog.
- EdwardDiego 2y ago
  > More like a skill issue Hey, I think you mistook HN for Reddit.
omgtehlion 2y ago
I serve 30tb/month for $30/mo on my own colocated hw

Twirrim 2y ago

OP has never said that this is about financial aspects of things.

Joker_vD 2y ago
Yews, it's about enforcing their preference on how others should interact with OP's published site feed, on principle. Which is always an uphill battle.
- Twirrim 2y ago
  It's about enforcing that people follow standards. Which is still an uphill battle, but at least it's based in something sane. Their work on this has resulted in improvements to a whole slew of popular feed readers that should make life easier for a chunk of the internet, not just OP's own site.

that_guy_iain 2y ago

Sounds like you don't know how to scale for cheap. And since I've ran integrations that connected over 500 companies. I know what a rouge client actually looks like and 72 requests per day and I wouldn't even notice.

EdwardDiego 2y ago
Good on you champ.

donatj 2y ago

I do run a popular blog, and a $5 a month Digital Ocean droplet handles millions of requests per month without breaking a sweat.

devjab 2y ago
If every user is collecting 36mb a day like in the story here, your droplet wouldn’t even be capable of serving 500 users a month without hitting your bandwidth limit. With their current rates, your one million requests would cost you around 10 million USD.
- sccxy 2y ago
  If OP enabled gzip then this 36mb would be 13mb. If OP reduced 30 months of posts in rss to 12 months then this 13mb would be 5mb a day. Using Cloudflare free plan and this static content is cached without any problem.
  - notpushkin 2y ago
    Yeah, but also... if RSS readers behaved correctly, it would be 512 kb. (170 kb with gzip, if she didn't enable it like you imply – I'm too lazy to check, but I assumed it was on.) I think making clients behave correctly is much more sustainable solution, although we could do better than doing so at the cost of the end users.
    - int_19h 2y ago
      This entire thread is a vivid illustration of why software is so shitty in general these days.
- donatj 2y ago
  30 * 500 * 36mb = 560gb and I have 1tb a month on my apparently $6 droplet Correction - from my billing page it's $4.50 a month, from the resize page it is $6 so I'm guessing I am grandfathered in to some older pricing
  - tecleandor 2y ago
    That's ridiculously big quantity of data to serve a seldomly updated blog just because the client doesn't want (or know how, or think about) to implement an easy and old http method. Imagine the petabytes of data transferred through the internet saved if a couple RSS clients added that method.

sccxy 2y ago

More like a skill issue or just decision to make your life more difficult. It is free and easy to scale this kind of text based blog.

EdwardDiego 2y ago
> More like a skill issue Hey, I think you mistook HN for Reddit.

omgtehlion 2y ago

I serve 30tb/month for $30/mo on my own colocated hw