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0 pointsmanquer7mo ago0 comments

Hard to imagine costs were ever a factor.

For company running GCP and giving things like Colab TPUs free the costs of running a URL service would be trivial rounding number at best

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b1127mo ago

Outside of bandwidth, I could run this entire service on a raspberry pi. No, I'm not exaggerating. It's just a text end of url to full url lookup.

I've handled far more traffic on single machines 20 years ago.

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0 pointsmanquer7mo ago0 comments

Hard to imagine costs were ever a factor.

For company running GCP and giving things like Colab TPUs free the costs of running a URL service would be trivial rounding number at best

b1127mo ago

Outside of bandwidth, I could run this entire service on a raspberry pi. No, I'm not exaggerating. It's just a text end of url to full url lookup.

I've handled far more traffic on single machines 20 years ago.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse