StevenB on Nostr: The Podcast Index costs them $900 a month to index and serve all of the podcasts. The ...
The Podcast Index costs them $900 a month to index and serve all of the podcasts. The amount of data being sent with 4 million feeds is surprisingly expensive. Perhaps sending it across relays is different, but I suspect bandwidth is bandwidth whether it's across a websocket or http.
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