[HN Gopher] Show HN: Host a planet-scale geocoder for $10/mo
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       Show HN: Host a planet-scale geocoder for $10/mo
        
       For the uninitiated, a geocoder is maps-tech jargon for a search
       engine for addresses and points of interest.  Geocoders are
       expensive to run. Like, really expensive. Like, $100+/month per
       instance expensive unless you go for a budget provider. I've been
       poking at this problem for about a month now and I think I've come
       up with something kind of cool. I'm calling it Airmail. Airmail's
       unique feature is that it can query against a remote index, e.g. on
       object storage or on a static site somewhere. This, along with low
       memory requirements mean it's about 10x cheaper to run an Airmail
       instance than anything else in this space that I'm aware of. It
       does great on 512MB of RAM and doesn't require any storage other
       than the root disk and remote index. So storage costs stay fixed as
       you scale horizontally. Pretty neat.  Demo here:
       https://airmail.rs/#demo-section  Writeup:
       https://blog.ellenhp.me/host-a-planet-scale-geocoder-for-10-...
       Repository: https://github.com/ellenhp/airmail
        
       Author : ellenhp
       Score  : 7 points
       Date   : 2024-02-16 16:21 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
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       | killingtime74 wrote:
       | Amazing, thanks for the writeup and sharing
        
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