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Jsonbox – A HTTP based JSON storage

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Re: Jsonbox – A HTTP based JSON storage

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Post by olau »

techie128 wrote: post #8

I don't get it. You're hosting a service that allows users to store JSON for free? Why? Have you thought about what happens to your expenses when potentially hundreds or thousands of people use it?

Maybe the author wants to improve our world? It looks like this is for people with modest needs. Thousands of people shouldn't be a problem at all, with the right architecture.

And if we're talking millions of people, surely some of the can be persuaded to donate a small amount? Hosting isn't that expensive if you go outside the enterprise cloud bubble.

Re: Jsonbox – A HTTP based JSON storage

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Post by ctas »

techie128 wrote: post #8

I don't get it. You're hosting a service that allows users to store JSON for free? Why? Have you thought about what happens to your expenses when potentially hundreds or thousands of people use it?

What's supposed to happen to his expenses? You assume that the creator is running the service on a host with auto-scaling enabled? If it runs on $5 DO droplet it will simply not be able to handle all requests. Sounds fine to me for a free service.

Re: Jsonbox – A HTTP based JSON storage

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Post by jakub_jo »

onion2k wrote: post #9
al_form2000 wrote: post #6

How is this superior to ?

It isn't. And that's fine. People can build and release their projects without necessarily having to build the best-in-class version of whatever it is. This is a useful, well-written, open source app that someone has taken to the point where they're willing to put it out there for the world to use, and that in itself is well worth discussing and celebrating (as much as a handful of upvotes on HN can be a celebration…

Can't agree more with your post.

Re: Jsonbox – A HTTP based JSON storage

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Post by onion2k »

isubasinghe wrote: post #14

This surely wont last long, the more people that use this, the more likely that this service gets shutdown due to an increase in cost.

A service like this wouldn't cost that much to run even at a scale that serves tens of millions of requests a day. It's pretty much ideal for horizontal scaling. It's certainly in the region where a benevolent Bay Area dev could afford to run it as a hobby.

Re: Jsonbox – A HTTP based JSON storage

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Post by rathel »

Whenever you provide something free, "for prototyping" or "for personal projects", there will always be some moron/asshole who will abuse it by deploying it in a mobile app or something. It happens from time to time with OSM map tile servers operated by OpenStreetMap Foundation. And with Overpass API. This all is for software and data that can be entirely self-hosted, though servers are obviously not free.

Re: Jsonbox – A HTTP based JSON storage

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Post by chungy »

isubasinghe wrote: post #14

This surely wont last long, the more people that use this, the more likely that this service gets shutdown due to an increase in cost.

Looks like the repository is the server implementation. If you can really use this for critical code, it's probably nicest to set up your own server :)

Re: Jsonbox – A HTTP based JSON storage

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Post by broodbucket »

alexis_fr wrote: post #3

Awesome for small projects. I’d use it. But: - IANAL but it seems like a GDPR nightmare (and same for porn and legal nightmare), - It would be jnteresting to see whether some people are careless about privacy and encryption, or use it as a coordination server for viruses or DDoS. It would also be interesting what genuine usages come up from such APIs. - No-one would use it for a too serious project anyway, because th…

I sure am keen to see some of this JSON porn
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