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Terence Eden
Terence Eden
@Edent@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

🆕 blog! “The cost of running OpenBenches.org”

After my recent presentation at FOSDEM, someone asked a pretty reasonable question. What does it cost to run OpenBenches?

It is, thankfully, surprisingly cheap! In part, that's because it is a relatively simple tech stack - PHP, MySQL, a couple of API calls to external services. It was designed to be as low cost while …

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/02/the-cost-of-running-openbenches-org/
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#fosdem #foss #money #OpenBenches

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Thomas Steiner :chrome:
Thomas Steiner :chrome:
@tomayac@toot.cafe replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

@Edent For reverse geocoding, I maintain https://www.npmjs.com/package/local-reverse-geocoder that's based on GeoNames open data.

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Terence Eden
Terence Eden
@Edent@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

@tomayac thanks! I'm not sure how easily I can run node stuff on my host, but I'll check it out.
Appreciate it 🙂

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Moray
Moray
@Moray@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

@Edent Is browserstack not open to you as a non-profit for testing?

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Terence Eden
Terence Eden
@Edent@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

@Moray I didn't know it existed.
OB isn't a formal non-profit - it's a project paid for by my (for-profit) company.

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