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Re:Ask HN: What is the cheapest, easiest way to host a cronj... by VLM on Monday December 19, 2022 @07:08PM (#34059718)
I thought about AWS MQTT "IoT" as the pricing contains gems like a million MQTT packets for a dollar. You'd use a MQTT "retained message", push the current SHA1 hash of the page or whatever will fit (maybe only a CRC32 LOL), then connect an hour later to receive that message containing the hash. The cost would seem to be $1 per 5 years because AFAIK AWS meters on input and output... I'm not bored enough to audit the AWS pricing structure to see if this will work. I think $2 per decade would be hard to beat for a billed service.

I think the cheapest "cheaty" way to store data for free would be to pollute tracking sites. Open an account at some company, change your mailing address every hour, etc.

Re:Ask HN: What is the cheapest, easiest way to host a cronj... by TylerE on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @04:30AM (#34063626)
Hash isn’t nearly enough. Web pages love to generate random ids, cache busters, etc.