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Good question 🧐

Well for one…. I bought a premium account on Nostr.Build

Oh I didn't even know this was possible yet😯

Yeah, a few ways! Accounts and donations mostly. AWS gave me $1000 grant a few months ago, but only ~$300 left, this month is ~$600, received $150 in Zaps, sold $100 of accounts, I may pay $50-$200 a month depending. I don’t care paying a few $100 out of pocket, I just can’t wake up with $1000 monthly bill 😂 ** we are working on a whole new architecture backend which will be much more cost effective and plan to deploy next weekend. It will fix a lot of things and will absolutely bring prices down.

Then we can move to Podcast Storage and RSS Monthly Subscriptions 🤪😀

⚡️ Thank you for all that you do for #nostr

Yes indeed thank you for what you have done for the community here, and good to hear you'll be able to decrease costs. Do you have plans to implement a revenue model? Subscibtion proportional to storage used? Or a %of a zap-splits? Are you gathering data on what users would prefer?

For instance, you can make video uploads a premium-only feature

Let see how it goes, I love hosting free video, but it is expensive…

click per view splits can’t come soon enough

I'd second video being premium only whenever you're ready to do it!

We will get the prices down. Fishcake and I are working on a whole new infrastructure that will help..

Great work 🫂

I see all the data-out and traffic as a ‘good problem’

🫡 Respect, with the increasing demand for video and pictures, this can be quite a burden.

Fishcake is fixing it. Load balancing servers with image proxy shrinking and caching from s3. It’s going to be beautiful and fixes a lot of other problems also.. So many cool things coming to nostr.build!!

It’s mostly nostr because I’ve pushed most clients to the api and website traffic is way down, but there is still a lot of website traffic, but that could be nostr also..

A really cool strategy once we get accounts integrated with the clients, is to push people to the accounts and just offer bare minimum for free, but not there yet.

Yea account integration with clients will be good for sure 💜🤙

It’s top on my list, it’s a win for everyone. We have two new account features coming with the new infrastructure, - killer new acct dashboard - api for ‘creators page button’ (will add a ‘gif’ button of curated content to apps. 1st step into acct/app integration..)

Why not your own Dropbox or mega or google drive?

I don’t know anything about mega, but Google Drive and Dropbox make it inconvenient, if not impossible, to get a direct link to your media. The share links they provide display the media in their own viewer instead of linking directly to the file.

you can, but you'll go through your bandwidth allotment if you have a couple large files and have a lot of followers or popular notes.

True but there are third party extensions that make that easier

Micro-zap payments per upload? Show minimum Sats for image or video with option to add more Sats when upload.

Added the robots.txt earlier this month, yeah, trying to limit all scraping , increased compression an reduced video upload max. New load balancing arch will likely solve these problems.

Goaccess.io looks perfect. Just point that to my web logs?

Yes, can install and run from command line. Or will generate HTML, json, or csv reports. Is very powerful with a lot of features. If logs big can tar up logs and download to run locally.

This is perfect, AWS analytics are crap.. Any chance there is a real-time public view I can share with all?

Yep, just look at the goaccess demo shows realtime example.

Great resource, thank you! New feature coming soon!! :)