{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/chmllr/NoteHub/issues/23","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/chmllr/NoteHub/issues/23/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/chmllr/NoteHub/issues/23/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/chmllr/NoteHub/issues/23/events","html_url":"https://github.com/chmllr/NoteHub/issues/23","id":72474668,"number":23,"title":"Long term hosting strategy","user":{"login":"derekmc","id":170694,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/170694?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/derekmc","html_url":"https://github.com/derekmc","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/derekmc/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/derekmc/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/derekmc/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/derekmc/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/derekmc/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/derekmc/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/derekmc/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/derekmc/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/derekmc/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/chmllr/NoteHub/labels/question","name":"question","color":"cc317c"}],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":3,"created_at":"2015-05-01T17:03:32Z","updated_at":"2015-05-02T08:20:14Z","closed_at":null,"body":"I am interested in hearing about your long term hosting and/or monetization strategy.\r\n\r\nI really love this service and would like to be able to rely on it to store markdown articles indefinitely.  In my experience the biggest obstacle to this is hosting costs, sites start out great, but then if they don't have a viable business model they are shut down or go offline eventually.\r\n\r\nYou say you are hosting on heroku free tier.  Are you storing the data there as well? If the site became popular would you find a way to finance the increased hosting costs and scale the service?\r\n\r\nI love this service and would love to see it succeed.\r\n\r\nThanks!\r\n\r\n"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/chmllr/NoteHub/issues/comments/98330214","html_url":"https://github.com/chmllr/NoteHub/issues/23#issuecomment-98330214","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/chmllr/NoteHub/issues/23","id":98330214,"user":{"login":"chmllr","id":649785,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/649785?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/chmllr","html_url":"https://github.com/chmllr","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/chmllr/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/chmllr/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/chmllr/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/chmllr/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/chmllr/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/chmllr/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/chmllr/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/chmllr/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/chmllr/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-05-02T08:20:14Z","updated_at":"2015-05-02T08:20:14Z","body":"I like all of your ideas.\r\n\r\nThey also remembered me, that in the past, I was also thinking more about \"power\" notes rather than \"power\" users. This could be merged with your idea about asking for donations at the publishing: the user could donate and enable the \"power\" mode with several features I described above. \r\n\r\nThis also could be combined with the NFS payment method: you pay once and then your deposit will decrease only if you publish power notes... I don't think the tracking is complicated at this point, but what I don't like is that i'd need to identify the user. And if I won't ask for the email, I could never provide password recovery. But then, the service gets non-anonymous and definitely not \"hassle-free\" anymore. But I'm sure we can work out this dilemma.\r\n\r\nAlso, what I expect, is that even if I have to move to a low-cost virtual server first (there are servers for like $3-4 / month (!)), the problem would disappear for _several years_ to come, because I only have 25Mb DB space at the moment (I'm at about 36% usage) and this storage space would increase to at least 1-5 GB. The processor and RAM wouldn't probably increase much in comparison to Heroku, but even then, I'd rather experiment with further technical optimisations to decrease the load, which I actually consider as a very interesting challenge and would have a lot of fun to tackle it. (It cannot be hard to serve static content)\r\n\r\nDue to these low-cost hosting, even with a simple Donate button on the landing page I probably would be able to cover the costs, and if not, these is not the amount of money I care about. I care much more about the time spent on the project, because this resource is limited much more."}}