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lennertVanSever / graphcountries

An easy to use GraphQL API to query country-related data for free and without restrictions
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Help me keep the graphcountries API online #20

Open lennertVanSever opened 3 years ago

lennertVanSever commented 3 years ago

After a year, my free Google Cloud account expired. With an average of 14 requests per minute, it will cost me around €30 per month to keep it online. That's around 2 Netflix subscriptions in my country.

My goal is that this API can be kept online by contributions from the community. Consider sponsoring me through the Github Sponsors program. If I can reach the goal of $30 per month, I will keep this API in the air for as long as it lasts.

Personally, I'm open to contribute €100 for this API, this will allow keeping this API online for 3 months. If after this period there are not enough contributions, I will have to bring the API down 💔

unicornist commented 2 years ago

There should be other alternative hosting methods to keep this online somehow free of charge. Even the cloud providers have sorts of Open Source programs/initiatives to help keep things like this online that definitely help on making people use their products in the future which is strategically profitable for them. The funny thing is at the same time your server is down, these are also down:

So officially there is no API on the internet that gives/demos such data (especially border countries which I was initially interested in)

lennertVanSever commented 2 years ago

There should be other alternative hosting methods to keep this online somehow free of charge. Even the cloud providers have sorts of Open Source programs/initiatives to help keep things like this online that definitely help on making people use their products in the future which is strategically profitable for them. The funny thing is at the same time your server is down, these are also down:

So officially there is no API on the internet that gives/demos such data (especially border countries which I was initially interested in)

We can definitely look into free hosting, if you can help me with that. It would be awesome