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If you would like to lower the cost more, I think switching to a cheaper cloud service like Linode or Hetzner would be the way to go.
I'm not sure if it's worth going any lower than $24/month
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If you run binaries compiled by the author of the software it wouldn't matter that it is open source, so play store is out of the question. So then it must be open source and you must use distributor you trust: your distro maintainers and F-Droid. Also you must trust that people did really take a look at the code.
That's exactly how Signal and Keybase work, and nobody has any problems with that.
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If you don't trust the person that wrote the software, it doesn't matter if it's E2E encrypted or not. There could be a back-door
If you don’t trust a communication channel, you could always do a Diffie-Hellman key exchange in the clients which lets you create a shared encrypted channel between two parties by sharing public keys. This works even if they are trying to monitor you.
Cool project. Another one I’ve used for this purpose is pushover. It’s a $5 lifetime fee. It’s worked well for me so far. https://pushover.net/
Very nice. I use a telegram bot for doing this as telegram API also makes it a simple GET request to send such notifications to yourself (once you have created a bot). Also it's surprisingly hard to kill telegram for some reason so it's kinda robust. My stupid mi phone is quite aggresive in killing most background apps except whatsapp and telegram.
I recently made it free because I am unable to monetize it. Please give it a try.
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I've used pushover for years as well. I wish they would charge me $5/y instead of a $5/lifetime. I've asked them to do that. I want this service to last. I set up Tasker on my phone such that when a specific low-priority (no visible/audible alert) message from pushover, containing only a hash key, is received it picks it up and does an HTTPS request to my self-hosted server to retrieve the actual notification text. I…
Pushover requires a monthly subscription for teams. I guess that’s what most of their revenue comes from anyway.
https://blog.pushover.net/posts/2022/3/ten
Any individual users wanting to support Pushover are welcome to join as a personal Team with 1 member :)
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I suspect the F-Droid version might have delays. There are various issues when avoiding Firebase. There is no way to fulfill all of these: - avoid Google servers - preserve battery - show timely notifications https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-android/issues/82
This is incorrect (at least in my experience). Firebase/FCM is significantly slower in delivering messages than the non-Firebase version (WebSockets or JSON stream, longstanding connection). It was actually mindboggling to me how slow Firebase is in delivering messages (especially when the phone is in doze mode).
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It's quite cheap to run. It's just one small EC2 instance, and it's usually idling around a load average of 0.1 (though right now it's at 1, hehe). It costs me about $24/month. The Apple developer license costs $100 per year, so it's ~$400/year. As of recently, that's entirely covered by donations. I am incredibly humbled by the sponsorships. I would have never thought ntfy would take off like that. I love open sourc…
You can probably cut down server cost by half. Have you tried with lower resources or have figured out a minimum requirement for the server? As an experiment I suggest - https://tinykvm.com/ - with FreeBSD or OpenBSD (Linux doesn't really do well with small amount of RAM).