Maybe you could make a signup with Stripe or Paypal or something so that people could pay $5 or $10 per month to use it.. that way you would have enough money to at least pay for the server(s) and a reason to maintain it and come up with a way for it to automatically scale.
I mean do you have something like a load balancer or proxy or something that will allow it to scale horizontally in case a few people really take advantage or it becomes popular?
It seems like leaving it totally free would probably end up with it just not being worthwhile to maintain.. but if there is a little money going in and at least one well-known service starts using it then I would totally consider using it.
It was quick for me to make and it doesn't really require maintenance - feel free to donate to the EFF in honor of the project.
In terms of scalability, the app is doing very little processing so it's really just a matter of how many concurrent connections Node can handle in & out, but I've read it's capable of hundreds of thousands or more. Let me know if you are seeing high latency.
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Maybe you could make a signup with Stripe or Paypal or something so that people could pay $5 or $10 per month to use it.. that way you would have enough money to at least pay for the server(s) and a reason to maintain it and come up with a way for it to automatically scale.
I mean do you have something like a load balancer or proxy or something that will allow it to scale horizontally in case a few people really take advantage or it becomes popular?
It seems like leaving it totally free would probably end up with it just not being worthwhile to maintain.. but if there is a little money going in and at least one well-known service starts using it then I would totally consider using it.
It was quick for me to make and it doesn't really require maintenance - feel free to donate to the EFF in honor of the project.
In terms of scalability, the app is doing very little processing so it's really just a matter of how many concurrent connections Node can handle in & out, but I've read it's capable of hundreds of thousands or more. Let me know if you are seeing high latency.
It is on nodejitsu so at least portions of the architecture should scale reasonably.