the ballchasing.com is provided for free, without ads to serve the community
However, hosting it has costs:
- Storage: the 100+ million replays and the generated stats sum up to more than 200TB
of data. This is the most expensive part of the hosting costs.
- Compute: both the user-facing facing services (website, api and upload endpoints) and
the
backend services (replay processing, stats generation, ...)
- Database: to ensure the user's data safety, ballchasing.com database is:
- Continuously archived to a separate server in a different datacenter (wal archiving)
- A differential backup is performed every 6 hours
- A full backup is performed daily
- A Restore test is performed weekly to ensure that the backups are viable.
These tests run
on a separate server with a similar configuration to the main website servers
Can't Fly, the site creator is happy to continue to provide this service for free and
without ads, as long as his financial situation permits it.
However, a quota system (on the number of uploads/day) had to be put in place to ensure that the site remains sustainable.
If you want to support him, you can do so via Patreon from as little as $2/month:
Support the site:
As a bonus, patrons get a couple of perks: check the Patreon
Perks section for more details