04-11-2024, 11:43 AM
(This post was last modified: 04-11-2024, 06:14 PM by infinitempg. Edited 2 times in total.)
Hi all. Unfortunately I will have to temporarily shut down WolfieBot and WolfieBot Dashboards as the Amazon S3 instance has mysteriously started charging me significantly more than expected over the last few months:
While normally it costs me about $2/mo to host files on S3, it has ballooned up over the last few months to over $20 and is currently projected to exceed $30 for the month of April. This is specifically due to the TimedStorage-ByteHrs charge on the server, something that I am too lazy to figure out not sure the root cause of. Combining this with the about $15/mo cost of running the bot and webserver on Heroku, it just becomes too expensive to run.
I am thankful to all the users who kindly donate money to keep WolfieBot running, but I cannot in good conscience ask for money to cover this cost when it's clearly something on my end that has screwed it up.
I am hoping to figure out what is wrong within the upcoming week or two so that I can restore access to WolfieBot for everyone. In the meantime, the Discord Bot and historical dashboards will be down for an unspecified amount of time. I apologize for the inconvenience and hope that it is truly a temporary and short shutdown. The shutdown will begin later this afternoon or evening.
-infinitempg
EDIT
I think I figured it out? So not shutting down today but possibly tomorrow night depending on what happens.
While normally it costs me about $2/mo to host files on S3, it has ballooned up over the last few months to over $20 and is currently projected to exceed $30 for the month of April. This is specifically due to the TimedStorage-ByteHrs charge on the server, something that I am too lazy to figure out not sure the root cause of. Combining this with the about $15/mo cost of running the bot and webserver on Heroku, it just becomes too expensive to run.
I am thankful to all the users who kindly donate money to keep WolfieBot running, but I cannot in good conscience ask for money to cover this cost when it's clearly something on my end that has screwed it up.
I am hoping to figure out what is wrong within the upcoming week or two so that I can restore access to WolfieBot for everyone. In the meantime, the Discord Bot and historical dashboards will be down for an unspecified amount of time. I apologize for the inconvenience and hope that it is truly a temporary and short shutdown. The shutdown will begin later this afternoon or evening.
-infinitempg
EDIT
I think I figured it out? So not shutting down today but possibly tomorrow night depending on what happens.