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28 Apr 2023
In this tweet, I'd like to publicly answer a question I often receive in private.
Q: How/Where is ballchasing.com hosted ? Cloud vs Self-hosted, the cost breakdown, what technologies are used, ...
Check the thread for the answers:
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28 Apr 2023
then there are a 2 worker servers handling the replays parsing, indexing, stats computations, ...
2 front servers serving the website and api, behind a load balancer
all of these are hosted using Hetzner too
The Hetzner stack costs around 400$/month
Continued ...
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28 Apr 2023
I used to use and pay for DataDog to collect metrics and monitor the site, but that got too expensive
then switched to NewRelic, which also got too expensive with time.
I'm now using the fee plan of NetData
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27 Apr 2023
I don't like it but I had to resort to a huge banner in the website asking for patreon support because keeping the site up has been taking a toll on my finances for a couple years now.
I've been consistently paying a couple hundred euros from my pocket every month for a while😓
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26 Mar 2023
After 5 hours & 30 minutes of downtime, the service is up again.
What happened is an unlucky sequence of events. Check the thread for more details.
My apologies for such an extended downtime.
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26 Mar 2023
- the automated apply noticied that the OS should change from ubuntu 20.04 to 22.04
- so it went ahead and recreated all of the frontend (website api) and worker servers
- hence the downtime
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26 Mar 2023
Lessons learned:
- disable the automated terraform apply to start
- will look for more ways to avoid future accidental server deletions
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ballchasing.com retweeted
5 Jan 2023
Alright let's try to steer conversation back to the RLCS for a bit:
What's your favorite "advanced stat?" @BallchasingRL keeps track of player speed, distance to ball, time in different 3rds of the field, boost averages, all sorts of fun stuff. What's your favorite?
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20 Oct 2022
When finding footage for our videos, my job is made infinitely easier when I utilise features from @LiquipediaRL, @octane_gg & @BallchasingRL
LQ for scores, Octane for specifics, and Ballchasing to check the 3D view & to download the replays from. They're all invaluable 🐐🐐🐐
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ballchasing.com retweeted
5 Mar 2022
Nearly 8,000 Replay Files! Get access to the #RLCS 2021-22 Replay Group on @BallchasingRL!
ballchasing.com/group/rlcs-2…
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14 Jan 2022
Brace yourselves for the Dark Mode update is dropping !
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11 Jan 2022
Damn but while working on the upcoming dark mode, switching back to the light mode (to check for regressions) hurts the eyes something fierce !
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10 Jan 2022
A dark mode is in the works. No ETA yet but it is coming *soonish*.
ALT ballchasing.com dark mode
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