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redsolver
@redsolver.dev

Hi! SkyFeed is struggling and I need to find a solution. If you don't know SkyFeed, it's a service I built 2 years ago, enabling anyone to build and publish feeds using a visual block-based editor. SkyFeed is still hosting the most feeds on Bluesky, but that comes at a cost [1/X]

redsolver
@redsolver.dev

Let's get straight to the point: Renting servers for hosting all 75k+ SkyFeed feeds for millions of users daily costs me ~1094 EUR/month SkyFeed is 100% free, so the only income is my GitHub Sponsors (github.com/redsolver) with ~191 EUR/month The math does not quite work out here.

redsolver
@redsolver.dev

The most expensive part is compute, I have a lot of dedicated Hetzner servers for running the queries. Storage is also pretty expensive, but that's part of the dedicated servers (nvmes), so not really an extra cost. Bandwidth is 2 TB per month max, I'm only serving compressed JSON (a lot of it)

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lykron
@lykron.bsky.social

The easiest way to get that cost down would be to explore cheaper dedicated server providers advertising on webhostingtalk, but that would realistically be at most a 30% savings. Assuming you’re at 80%+ utilization.

lykron
@lykron.bsky.social

It would be cool if there was an easy way to distribute the processing so people could run parts of the processing- but that’s a complex task

Kyle
@assf.art

Hetzner is basically the cheapest you can get while maintaining any semblance of support and/or uptime, afaik