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[-] spectre@hexbear.net 68 points 3 days ago

Guillermo can have weekend release from the reeducation camp after the the revolution.

[-] Des@hexbear.net 34 points 3 days ago

or he can roll the dice, go full class traitor and might even get a statue made of him

[-] spectre@hexbear.net 9 points 2 days ago

I am happy to see them earn light treatment and maybe even an ounce of respect against all odds, but that is their mountain to climb.

[-] SerLava@hexbear.net 18 points 3 days ago

This is worth at least a PS4 in his room

[-] hollowmines@hexbear.net 21 points 2 days ago

rat-salute to everyone involved in maintaining and operating Jmail, it's so well-executed. I'm amazed it exists at all.

[-] Parzivus@hexbear.net 15 points 2 days ago

$1 per thousand pageviews seems really fucking high, no? Feels like Vercel is ripping this person off

[-] Moidialectica@hexbear.net 13 points 2 days ago

That is because vercel IS ripping you off, it's about 4 to 5 times more expensive minimum compared to a VPS

[-] dead@hexbear.net 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Your math is off by 10x. $45,000 divided by 450,000,000 is $1 per 10,000 page views ie $0.10 per thousand. Also you should consider that website is hosting files that are fairly big. If the page size average 1MB, then that would be $0.10 per gigabyte of traffic. If page size average 2MB, then that would be $0.05 per gigabyte.

I don't know what rates usually would be considered fair.

Also the website was launched 3 months ago and it seems like he is saying that the website has had 450m in total. The bill would be for the current month probably? I would think most of the traffic came in the last month, but some of the traffic would have been on a different billing cycle.

Without more information, this is all speculation.

[-] bloubz@lemmygrad.ml 21 points 3 days ago

But isn't Vercel fascist? I thought I've read that on Lemmy/hexbear before

[-] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 34 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)
[-] bloubz@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 2 days ago

Well, I guess no need for words. Thanks

[-] blobjim@hexbear.net 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

yeah I feel like taking free money from this guy or his company is a bad idea for a project's independence. It's bad enough that they've been hosting it on this guy's cloud service.

You can't accept anything for free without compromising it. That's how the entire NGO world works.

[-] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Not paying 50k a month definitely beats paying 50k month.

Cloud service providers give away their service for free to non-commercial projects and startups all the time for marketing purposes. I wouldn't read too much into it.

But yeah best to still look for hosting alternatives.

[-] blobjim@hexbear.net 3 points 2 days ago

yeah the dude is definitely doing it mostly for advertising purposes for his company (and personal reputation).

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