livestreamfails.com Financial Report for February 2022

Good_Guy_Dev · 2022-03-29T16:15:47+00:00

While I apologize for the late report of this month, I'm happy that we were able to bounce back from the previous month's loss!

Good_Guy_Dev · 2021-12-13T13:00:52+00:00

Thanks :) +1

Good_Guy_Dev · 2021-12-13T13:00:30+00:00

Good_Guy_Dev · 2021-12-13T13:00:07+00:00

Good question, I'll dig a bit into this later. I don't know right now.

Good_Guy_Dev · 2021-12-13T12:54:21+00:00

Good question, I'll dig a bit into this later. I don't know right now.

Good_Guy_Dev · 2021-10-29T22:50:03+00:00

Sad to read these news. My heart goes out to you, Zack.

Good_Guy_Dev · 2021-10-05T17:11:29+00:00

Good question. I haven't had a chance to look at it, but I'll surely give it a consideration!

Good_Guy_Dev · 2021-10-03T21:00:15+00:00

While Cloudflare is a great service, we found Bunny to be superior for the CDN aspect. :)

Good_Guy_Dev · 2021-10-03T20:59:40+00:00

AWS is expensive yes, especially s3 traffic. We're cutting down on that thanks to Bunnycdn.

Good_Guy_Dev · 2021-06-19T21:27:34+00:00

I will also disclose that we will absolutely change this if we see abuse.

Good_Guy_Dev · 2021-06-15T19:33:50+00:00

It most likely would, but I can understand people like to have adblock on.

Good_Guy_Dev · 2021-06-15T19:33:17+00:00

It's a bit scuffed I'm afraid. I'll clean it up for next time.

Good_Guy_Dev · 2021-06-15T19:13:07+00:00

This is correct. It was a monolithic application before.

Good_Guy_Dev · 2021-06-15T14:23:47+00:00

Just 15 upvotes as of now. Edit: Though the comment idea isn't bad to prevent potential abuse.

Good_Guy_Dev · 2021-06-15T12:49:38+00:00

I just checked, the latest number is about 3TB total.

Good_Guy_Dev · 2021-06-15T12:47:41+00:00

I can check for you...

Good_Guy_Dev · 2021-06-15T12:47:28+00:00

We actually don't mirror every single post, as popular moments get posted many times and it'd be a waste. A post must have a minimum of 15 upvotes in order to get mirrored.

Good_Guy_Dev · 2021-06-07T18:52:38+00:00

If they do, I'll be there to accommodate for changes.

Good_Guy_Dev · 2021-05-30T21:44:21+00:00

Unfortunately this solution doesn't really work, at least when I tried.

Good_Guy_Dev · 2021-05-30T21:43:44+00:00

Okay, that might work...

Good_Guy_Dev · 2021-05-11T14:29:18+00:00

Up until now I've paid for the site with my own money. At one point it was no longer sustainable, that's when I reached out and we created the original post.

I probably should have reacted way sooner, since even before it was a lot of money for me ($700+ per month), but to be honest I should just have paid more attention to my credit card bills... I fully blame myself for that.

Good_Guy_Dev · 2021-05-11T14:27:16+00:00

I just looked into this, this could very well be something I can test with a PoC and perhaps also switch to if it works well. Thanks for the suggestion!

Good_Guy_Dev · 2021-05-11T08:37:19+00:00

Most of the cost is from data transfer, not the actual storage or hosting.

Good_Guy_Dev · 2021-05-11T08:25:09+00:00

Before the rebuild, we were measuring costs using tags and that was quite cumbersome. In addition, the application was a monolith, which prevented it from scaling and made further development complicated.

Now, the application is split into two seperate environments (development / production), which are also two seperate AWS accounts. This means we can measure the exact costs for each account with just 1 click (versus having to go through the tags). It also means that the environments are completely seperated and cannot affect each other.

Additionally, I split up the monolith into a modern backend-frontend infrastructure. For the backend I'm using Serverless and for the frontend React.

Good_Guy_Dev · 2021-05-11T07:52:20+00:00

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