Show HN: Investment Bets – A performance tracker for market bets

Re:Show HN: Investment Bets – A performance tracker for mark... by MVP45 on Monday August 24, 2026 @12:18PM (#49422010)

Hey, I have a server-related question. Are you currently paying for a server to fetch the data in real-time as the user requests it in the webpage or do you have a server running updating prices all the time? Also, if it's ok for me to ask is a server service like that expensive at all? Thanks beforhand.

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Re:Show HN: Investment Bets – A performance tracker for mark... by php_survivor on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @09:13AM (#49433453)

Hey, thanks for the question!

So, the server that runs the website also fetches the data on demand, which it then caches for up to 1 minute in order to not get denied with 429 Too Many Requests. That was the optimal balance between freshness and stability in my tests.

I'm using a cheap server provider for now, so my server costs amount to around $5/month. I expect that to (hopefully) scale up, but for now it works without issues.

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