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This is great information on just how little it takes to run a service like Pinboard, with hundreds of thousands of active users, on your own hardware. Just ima
by zrail 12y ago
This is great information on just how little it takes to run a service like Pinboard, with hundreds of thousands of active users, on your own hardware. Just imagine how much more it would cost on Heroku or even AWS, just so you can avoid having to think about ops.
- idlewords 12y agoThe site only has about 25k active users. But I'm pretty sure it could handle about 10x the traffic without changing this spreadsheet much.
- zrail 12y agoOh for some reason I thought it was more. I think my point still stands, though.
- michaelbuckbee 12y agoStats on usage, users, etc. at http://blog.pinboard.in/ http://blog.pinboard.in/
- AznHisoka 12y agoHow do you define active user?
- StavrosK 12y agoHmm. For comparison, historious has around 7k active users and I only pay $10/mo for a 1 GB RAM linode.
- TillE 12y agoCegłowski (@Pinboard) is utterly brilliant on Twitter, by the way: "I toyed with using Heroku but found that it was faster and more reliable to put hundred dollar bills through a paper shredder"
- ceejayoz 12y agoIt's by far the best "corporate" Twitter account I've ever encountered.