Re:Why Is the Web So Monotonous? Google
by marginalia_nu on Friday August 05, 2022 @06:11AM
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It's literally hosted off a beefy PC in my living room. I could definitely not afford to host this on AWS or rented servers.
About ~5k USD total investment including a small UPS, operational costs are $40/mo. Doesn't actually require all that much maintenance, at least not compared to the work I've put into building a search engine (including crawler, index) from scratch.
About ~5k USD total investment including a small UPS, operational costs are $40/mo. Doesn't actually require all that much maintenance, at least not compared to the work I've put into building a search engine (including crawler, index) from scratch.