Hi everyone,So yeah, you got that right, we're seriously considering hosting a gigabyte of stuff for $5 for 20 years or around $0.02 a month. Because we want websites to stop disappearing from the web because you missed your monthly payment.Now obviously, we can't run a proper VPS for every user at that price and if we did we'd probably be lying about being ready to keep it up for 20 years. No less obvious is that pure static hosting is useless for many cases.So I came up with this idea to run server-side JS on demand. You get 5 seconds to start up, accept and process a HTTP request and clean up. Stateless, shared-nothing, like in good ol' PHP times. And if you need a database we have SQLite (also considering adding LevelDB).I duct-taped together two levels of LXC and several daemons in two days, and it does seem to work, but there are certainly problems (and possibly still some vulnerabilities). So I'm wondering if any one of you is interested in toying with this today, before the public launch (should happen within 2 days).Obviously, you get a free lifetime account for your efforts (valued at at least $5!!! :D).I don't want to disclose the name publicly yet, so I'll send you that and some instructions in a PM.Also feel free to ask me stuff.
Submitted November 21, 2017 at 06:09PM by virtulis
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