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Re: Ntfy.sh – Send push notifications to your phone via PUT/POST

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Post by otoolep »

binwiederhier wrote: post #207
Maxburn wrote: post #184

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What does your reliability look like? Obviously no SLA but what can we really expect? Pay tier available for HA?

https://ntfy.sh/docs/faq/#what-are-the-uptime-guarantees I guarantee for nothing, since this is a spare time project. That said, I have had zero outages in 11 months, see https://ntfy.statuspage.io/ When it outgrows the single EC2 instance, I'll likely start building some distributed thingy to spread the load and do some HA things (sounds like fun). Probably just a load balancer and 2-3 instances with a rqlite backen…

rqlite[1] author here, happy to answer any questions about it if it helps.

rqlite will give you HA, but won't help with load (rqlite replicates for reliability, not for write performance). But I like to think the it'll give you solid -- and simple to use -- HA. Replicated just replaced their use of Postgres with rqlite for this reason[2].

[1] https://github.com/rqlite/rqlite

[2] https://www.replicated.com/blog/app-manager-with-rqlite/

Re: Ntfy.sh – Send push notifications to your phone via PUT/POST

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Post by areichert »

Oh dang, just last week I started working on my own version of this [0]. Quite fun to hack on! Been thinking about what could be done to really differentiate.

Anyways, it's amazing that this is free! Very clean, very well done... bravo :)

[0] https://www.booper.dev/

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Post by conductr »

YetAnotherNick wrote: post #199
Bluecobra wrote: post #111

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If I were to run my own personal instance of this that cost would be quite high. A free Oracle Cloud VM or $5 Digital Ocean droplet would be the way I go.

If I go by $50/hour salary on average for developer, if someone saves 20 minutes per month on average using AWS, it is worth it.

Except where worth it in dollars < worth it in hassle

Re: Ntfy.sh – Send push notifications to your phone via PUT/POST

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Post by whatwherewhy »

areichert wrote: post #214

Oh dang, just last week I started working on my own version of this [0]. Quite fun to hack on! Been thinking about what could be done to really differentiate. Anyways, it's amazing that this is free! Very clean, very well done... bravo :) [0] https://www.booper.dev/

Don't be discouraged, you have a nice start of a JS API

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Post by kaczordon »

tubs wrote: post #201
binwiederhier wrote: post #26

Hey cool, this is my project. Happy to answer questions. Edit: I am also looking for a new opportunity. If you need a good Staff/Principal Engineer, check out my resume here: https://heckel.io/resume.pdf

How were you a principal engineer with 5 years experience and a senior principle with 7? Genuinely curious.

Time spent doing a job != skill. Once you hit a certain threshold of course.

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Post by krn »

hamburglar wrote: post #203
krn wrote: post #157

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> But personally - I don't really find your point sensible. You have no use-case, you have no threat model [...] My point is very clear and simple: all private communication on the internet should be E2E encrypted by default, unless there is a good reason not to. > [...] say "if they are doing it, it must be easy" - Ignoring that they are literally using the difficulty of doing it as the distinguishing factor for the…

> My point is very clear and simple: all private communication on the internet should be E2E encrypted by default, unless there is a good reason not to. Are you counting HTTPS as “E2E encrypted”? Because if not, consider that we do private communication over mere HTTPS all day long. Me loading the HN web page and having my own personal rendering of it with my user cookie header and all my upvote/downvote/karma/profil…

> Are you counting HTTPS as “E2E encrypted”?

No.

> Because if not, consider that we do private communication over mere HTTPS all day long. Me loading the HN web page and having my own personal rendering of it with my user cookie header and all my upvote/downvote/karma/profile state is private communication, for example.

Because there is a good reason for it: it wouldn't work well with E2E encryption.

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Post by abnercoimbre »

Bluecobra wrote: post #111
methyl wrote: post #106

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I'm not sure if it's worth going any lower than $24/month

If I were to run my own personal instance of this that cost would be quite high. A free Oracle Cloud VM or $5 Digital Ocean droplet would be the way I go.

Would the $5 droplet scale (and charge appropriately) if their specified bandwidth is exceeded?

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Post by praveen9920 »

binwiederhier wrote: post #164
hamburglar wrote: post #155

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This is super cool. If you don’t mind saying, how many connections do you tend to keep open at steady state?

Here are some stats from last night showing the volume of messages: IPs: 9756 Clients: 9980 - Google Play: 2796 - F-Droid: 5985 - iOS: 794 - curl: 62 - other: 343 Messages: - Successful: 310076 - Failed (rate limited): 104741 - Failed (other): 6511 Top publishers (* = limit exemption): 22908 matrix.org* 22352 matrix.gateway.unifiedpush.org* 18286 up.schildi.chat* 16134 192.124.x.x 14056 matrix.envs.net* 13376 108.35.…

Watch out for data transfer costs on aws after HN
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