Re:The New York Times buys Wordle
by gabrielsroka on Monday January 31, 2022 @05:55PM
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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.
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> it does cost me a bit to keep the servers up to run Wordle
https://techcrunch.com/2022/01/12/josh-wardle-interview-word...
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.
Cloudflare Pages (their Netlifly / Vercel competitor) offers unlimited free bandwidth. Wonder why he switched to AWS?
Re:The New York Times buys Wordle
by gabrielsroka on Monday January 31, 2022 @09:12PM
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To a large degree:
https://docs.github.com/en/pages/getting-started-with-github...
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://bafybeic4blel5vf4il73n3nzt6vw7npsov6or3cp3myjms4npii...
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.