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Re:Ntfy.sh – Send push notifications to your phone via PUT/POST by jacooper on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @09:25AM (#33519260)
If you would like to lower the cost more, I think switching to a cheaper cloud service like Linode or Hetzner would be the way to go.
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Re:Ntfy.sh – Send push notifications to your phone via PUT/POST by methyl on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @09:39AM (#33519434)
I'm not sure if it's worth going any lower than $24/month
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Re:Ntfy.sh – Send push notifications to your phone via PUT/POST by Bluecobra on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @09:47AM (#33519524)
If I were to run my own personal instance of this that cost would be quite high. A free Oracle Cloud VM or $5 Digital Ocean droplet would be the way I go.
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Re:Ntfy.sh – Send push notifications to your phone via PUT/POST by SteveNuts on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @10:09AM (#33519796)
A free Oracle Cloud VM still costs you your soul, in perpetuity.
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Re:Ntfy.sh – Send push notifications to your phone via PUT/POST by recuter on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @11:29AM (#33520820)
That can't be right, some of us have worked for IBM and no longer have souls.
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Re:Ntfy.sh – Send push notifications to your phone via PUT/POST by TeMPOraL on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @12:13PM (#33521430)
IBM and Oracle have a soul-sharing deal signed.
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Re:Ntfy.sh – Send push notifications to your phone via PUT/POST by vasco on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @01:49AM (#33528247)
They went to court over it and depending on the number of CPUs you use you might be forced to have one or two kids to pay the extra souls.
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Re:Ntfy.sh – Send push notifications to your phone via PUT/POST by TeMPOraL on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @05:20AM (#33529492)
Yeah, I think that "or two" in "one or two kids" is still being litigated. My reading is that it'll stay in litigation indefinitely, as this is the price both companies agreed to pay when they decided to retain lawyers from Hell itself.
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Re:Ntfy.sh – Send push notifications to your phone via PUT/POST by hamburglar on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @11:02AM (#33520456)
Well, of course. “$24 per month seems high for running my own personal instance that’s going to do a handful of notifications daily” vs “$24 per month seems high for running a public service that could very easily need to be scaled up quickly” are two very different statements.
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Re:Ntfy.sh – Send push notifications to your phone via PUT/POST by YetAnotherNick on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @01:16PM (#33522247)
If I go by $50/hour salary on average for developer, if someone saves 20 minutes per month on average using AWS, it is worth it.
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Re:Ntfy.sh – Send push notifications to your phone via PUT/POST by conductr on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @02:18PM (#33523066)
Except where worth it in dollars < worth it in hassle
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Re:Ntfy.sh – Send push notifications to your phone via PUT/POST by selcuka on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @05:55PM (#33525428)
If it's a single EC2 instance and not using any other AWS services, I fail to see the difference between Hetzner, DigitalOcean or AWS.

That being said, it's probably not worth migrating to another provider at this point.

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Re:Ntfy.sh – Send push notifications to your phone via PUT/POST by YetAnotherNick on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @07:12AM (#33530429)
I only have experience with Digital ocean and AWS. AWS free support is definitely much better than Digital Ocean. Also Digital Ocean is more quicker to delete your data than AWS in case of billing issue or anything.
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Re:Ntfy.sh – Send push notifications to your phone via PUT/POST by abnercoimbre on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @02:25PM (#33523131)
Would the $5 droplet scale (and charge appropriately) if their specified bandwidth is exceeded?
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Re:Ntfy.sh – Send push notifications to your phone via PUT/POST by jacooper on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @11:00AM (#33520423)
I mean from 24 to 10 is a big difference.
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