PikaPods – Instant Open Source App Hosting
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PikaPods – Instant Open Source App Hosting
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#2I am not sure after reading the landing page if the platform itself is open source or if I am only allowed to host open source apps on it?
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#3I am not sure after reading the landing page if the platform itself is open source or if I am only allowed to host open source apps on it?
It’s a hosted service, not open source. The “pods” that run are open source
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#4Wholesome. Brilliant for lazy people like us. Start and tinker things around with this and either host it ourselves when we like or just continue using this.
Thanks. Got my first pod running.
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#5This looks interesting, but I don't see where I can find info on bandwidth limits or pricing.
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#6This looks interesting, but I don't see where I can find info on bandwidth limits or pricing.
It's at the bottom of the page. A pod with 1GB of RAM, 1 CPU core and 10GB of storage costs $2.65 per month. Bandwidth is not mentioned but I don't think it should be a problem with most of apps except for like blogs.
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#7Founder here. Nice surprise to see this posted. Any questions, drop them here.
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#8This looks interesting, but I don't see where I can find info on bandwidth limits or pricing.
It's at the bottom of the page. A pod with 1GB of RAM, 1 CPU core and 10GB of storage costs $2.65 per month. Bandwidth is not mentioned but I don't think it should be a problem with most of apps except for like blogs.
No bandwidth limit or other charges. Just pay for allocated CPUs, memory and storage. Or stop the pod if it's not in use and pay for storage only ($1 minimum/month)
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#9Absolutely brilliant idea (ok it is an idea I have had myself, I am glad someone has done it)
One thing that is not clear is the estimated costs - is that per app, or do you charge for the server and I can run multiple apps? I think $10 a month for something to power 50 or so apps (maybe I don’t use them all the time, if I do I expect things to get slow or you allow say 2 concurrent apps) would be great.
I think this sort of thing will encourage people to use foss instead of the big walled gardens. Maybe this is the real web3?
My idea is a bit different: most web apps probably just need something like a firestore DB (Parse I guess would do?) so you charge for that and then apps are just a JS bundle format. Like android you have a store but also allow direct uploads at the users own risk.
Re: PikaPods – Instant Open Source App Hosting
#10Absolutely brilliant idea (ok it is an idea I have had myself, I am glad someone has done it) One thing that is not clear is the estimated costs - is that per app, or do you charge for the server and I can run multiple apps? I think $10 a month for something to power 50 or so apps (maybe I don’t use them all the time, if I do I expect things to get slow or you allow say 2 concurrent apps) would be great. I think this…
It’s per pod/app you run and depends on the resources you allocate. Price for minimum required resources is given for each app and starts at $1/month.
Yeah, the goal is to make running FOSS as easy as Google Photos, but with more privacy and community-maintained code.
Also hoping to channel some funds back to authors, but that’s more complex than expected. Just getting started with it.