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Re:The New York Times buys Wordle by gabrielsroka on Monday January 31, 2022 @05:55PM (#30155949)
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...

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Re:The New York Times buys Wordle by sugarpile on Monday January 31, 2022 @06:54PM (#30156622)
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.
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Re:The New York Times buys Wordle by admn2 on Monday January 31, 2022 @07:00PM (#30156682)
Cloudflare Pages (their Netlifly / Vercel competitor) offers unlimited free bandwidth. Wonder why he switched to AWS?
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Re:The New York Times buys Wordle by gabrielsroka on Monday January 31, 2022 @09:12PM (#30157778)
To a large degree: https://docs.github.com/en/pages/getting-started-with-github...
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