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ابو مريم · 2d
let us know what you find
TKay · 6d
That’s a pretty sophisticated setup. You mean if you host an image, that goes viral and a lot of people are requesting it, you want to pay a little more there vs an image that is just stored an no...
Karadenizli profile picture
AWS for example, everything is metered. You pay for how much you store, how many CPU cycles you use, how much it gets accessed etc.

All the paid media hosts I've seen for nostr charge a flat fee per month, which means your seriously overpaying until you get close to maxing out the plan you're on.

What I'm talking about would have some pricing like:
3¢/gb/month storage + 1¢/10,000 requests
(Based off S3 pricing + healthy profit margin)

In this model, I'd think nothing of signing up as my monthly cost will be negligible at first. My first month I might have 200mb of images that get seen by 100 people, leading to a 10 sat bill the first month.

This will only grow over time as you upload more images and videos, but by then, you will have more media and much higher value actually provided by the service to you. Meanwhile nostr.build wants $1.50 a month right off the bat. This isn't much, but when your a new user, you are not gonna pay $1.50 to host a single picture. The pay as you go model is feasible to be fully zap funded, which would make onboarding immensely easy.
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TKay · 6d
Would a simple solution like more tiers be helpful? Meaning keep it flat fee, but way more tiers. For example per 100mb of use?
Karadenizli profile picture
Is there any paid blossom server that charges based on usage with a proper nostr login web interface to manage and see all the media and how much each is costing you, with DM alerts when usage spikes or balance running low? Because this is what we need right now. No one wants to start paying a fixed monthly fee before they have any media to pay to host. Even if it is more expensive with high usage, the pay as you go approach will charge those higher amounts only after the user has a ton of data they are paying to host.
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ابو مريم · 6d
nostr:npub1nje4ghpkjsxe5thcd4gdt3agl2usxyxv3xxyx39ul3xgytl5009q87l02j you know of any? i use satelite.earth which is kinda half way to what you're looking for. has the usage based payments but not quite all that file data and i don't thinknthey have blossom
Karadenizli profile picture
Its so satisfying to see the boomers that all protested for minimum wage when they were young raging at the lack of personal service at literally every business now. And they will never make the connection and realize that it's their fault.