Wait wait wait, does this mean data is going over a cellular network? On a data plan from some phone company? And their blog post just showed up here, on the front page of HN, which is notorious for crushing small servers with traffic?
LOLSOB, I really hope this poor person isn't in the US. Or the cellphone overage charges...
He's not actually serving data over the cellular network, but even if he did, how much traffic does being on the front page of HN generate ? His blog is very light, this page is only 22.2kB. Assuming 100k pageviews from HN, that would be 2.2GB. Well within most mobile plans.
> LOLSOB, I really hope this poor person isn't in the US. Or the cellphone overage charges...
I am in the US, and have unlimited 4G LTE data w/AT&T prepaid for just $65/mo. There wouldn't be any risk of overage charges in this plan, at worst it would be throttled if the network is congested.
You could totally host a small site over such a link, it would just require something like a dirt cheap VPS for the public IP address. Behind the 4G connection your server would maintain tunnels with the VPS for serving the actual content via a reverse proxy or some other circuit. Wouldn't hurt to do some caching at the VPS as well, for static content.
LOLSOB, I really hope this poor person isn't in the US. Or the cellphone overage charges...