Alternatives to a Database for Storage

[westbrookmd]

I'm really interested in seeing your project gain features over time - what a great idea. I looked at your roadmap and wondered whether you would consider looking into alternatives for the database.

For example, instead of storing the data and paying for a cloud-hosted database you could use Azure functions to gather the data when requested. I am not familiar with other storage hosting options, but hosting a database with such little data seems expensive. I'm not sure if blob storage or some other storage option would be more economical/feasible if this ends up being hosted on the internet.

Let me know your thoughts on this! Thanks!

[bellash13]

Thank you for your interest…

You are right about not using the database : a simple csv file would do the deal, since there’ll not be many data rows…at first view!

You may be right about azure but honestly I don’t like azure for two reasons:
1- I had an azure account in 2014 and it was very expensive at that time (about 50 times the price of trivial hosting at aspnet hosting for example) and the pay as you go was something more frustrating because I didn’t know in advance how much I had to be charged and so one. In 2018 we decided to move our solutions to aspnet hosting and we had to pay less than on azure.

2- the azure portal was very slow, and very restrictive (for security purpose of course) but I was in a region were internet were very slow and adding a simple IP address to the network firewall was almost a draining task…

MAYBE things have changed since but I really dislike azure (but I am a big Microsoft technologies fan)

[crazycga]

Speaking as an Azure person (I could put another word but it might fail a bad word censor... lol) Azure is MUCH better now. A LOT faster and a LOT cheaper. But your mileage will vary.

And you know GitHub is owned by Microsoft now right?