If anyone from Nitter is currently around, pure curiosity question -- what are the hosting costs/usage numbers for the current public instance?
Whenever I see projects like this that are just public, and designed to be available across large regions, I'm always curious what the logistics behind them are. Big companies talk about their infrastructure, and tiny blogs talk about their infrastructure. I don't hear a lot from people in the middle.
I mean, I see the installation instructions, but is this just running on a single VPS? Are you setting up multiple servers and trying to load-balance between them or anything?
It doesn't take much to run Nitter really, the nitter.net instance is currently sitting at 310 MB of memory and the CPU requirements aren't too bad. It's running off my dedicated home server with fairly low specs (i3-8100) tunnelled through a cheap VPS to bypass firewall restrictions. It hasn't crashed or (to my knowledge) experienced severe slowdowns despite the huge traffic increase today. Invidious's story is a bit different as the main instance load balances between 10 VPS instances.
Regarding usage stats I don't have any accurate numbers, but the database that stores preferences has 30k rows.
Whenever I see projects like this that are just public, and designed to be available across large regions, I'm always curious what the logistics behind them are. Big companies talk about their infrastructure, and tiny blogs talk about their infrastructure. I don't hear a lot from people in the middle.
I mean, I see the installation instructions, but is this just running on a single VPS? Are you setting up multiple servers and trying to load-balance between them or anything?