SteemSQL is moving to a monthly subscription model
7 years ago in #steemsql by arcange (73)
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- - Curators $85.20, 0.00 TRX
I am your first customer! Thank you and I'll support you as always!
Thanks for being the very first one subscriber!
And thanks you so much for your support! You rock!
That right
Your "1 free month subscription" has been allocated. Thanks for using SteemSQL and your previous donation!
Thank you!
Hello @arcange, I complete understand the needs for SteemSQL. And is a very useful tool that I use almost everyday. I even made a few excel dashboards to friends search for data related with their projects(@brazilians as example) , and they use it very often too. So we really appreciate you effort and what you spended to keep up till now. For sure I'll subscribe, and Ill do another small donation.
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Thank you @lpessin. Glad to read that SteemSQL is useful for a lot of people.
And thank you so much for your donation! Really appreciated!
Thank you with this brave move!
I'm not your customer but I believe that you should charge money for your work. This will help to start the Steemit ecosystem moving in the right direction. Let the market decide on the price and everything is going to be just fine.
Thanks for your comment.
I only partially agree with you. In a way, I believe I shouldn't.
There are some mechanisms to fund projects on the platform. Using them would be better and beneficial to all. By charging for my services, I prevent some less wealthy users to play with it. The market is not always the best solution.
As expected, you're seeing a bit of resistance to the obvious outcome to managing a SQL Server that is literally hammered by TONS of connections. That infrastructure is NOT cheap and the time to manage it is not free. It's unrealistic for anyone to expect this to continue indefinitely.
Since you'll filter off a lot of that traffic, the service will be even better for your remaining users. Also, you'll have cash flow now to possibly upgrade your infrastructure even further.
And frankly, this opens the door to the community to spin up another public instance. Thanks for all your work and contributions!
@blervin, thanks for your very supportive comment!
Indeed, managing such an infrastructure requires money and time. And as you wrote, it would have been unsustainable to continue to provide such a service for free.
And yes, I hope this subscription model will allow me to provide even better service.
I'm in! 10SBDs paid and access granted.. Let the querying commence!
Thank you for using SteemSQL.
r.i.p freedom
Hmm ... this has nothing to do with freedom ... does it?
you say it yourself with: ''More and more people are using SteemSQL and rely on its availability and performance to provide services and information to all Steemit users'' im willing to make noise if you cant make it up to keep it for free and fix some people who have actual benefit for this like some people who are saying they are executives and have a lot of sp and strange delegations to asian stereotypes.. so what can be done is a crowdfunding but if you take away our information that we can use to make our investmentstrategy or just info about the state at all you cannot make that premium. if you really do then you show the wrong intentions.. especially if there is no other option to get all information out.. and since the environement grows and matures, you took the responsibility so you have to provide that.. whatever happens if you do that I will completely lose my likes.. because the system is super pyramid at the higher sp's and the lower sp's are not able to get information of a free opensource blockchain... smt is what is going to add to the ''restrictions'' too as i see it.. but to come to the point.. if you are providing a service that gives valuable information, and do so since the start of all.. you had not the intentions to earn money with it anyway but now you can't i have rights on that information else this whole system here on steem is getting too centralized. I am willing to help in getting donation
What a bunch of BS.
Hi - thanks - NB just for the record, my donation was one of those tiny ones, but I haven't actually accessed the database yet (well except for one test run when I just cut and past some of your code from one of your tutorials): I just wanted to make a small gesture of my appreciation (also I'm one of those people who would defo benefit from the 'minnow plan' mentioned below - just the phrase made that worth an upvote).
I'm intending to use it a lot from summer once I've quit my current job and actually have time to get stuck into data analysis proper.
Anyway, I'll still continue to make small donations once a month, I do know how much work goes into maintaining these things. I think it's a very reasonable price as people do very nicely out of those data analysis posts!
Cheers!
@revisesociology, thanks for your donations.
It's each time really appreciated, even if tiny ones!
Thanks a lot for steemsql! I like steemsql very much and I subscribed last month. Just now I was renewing it, but I transferred 10 SBD to @arcange rather than @steemsql! May I have it back? Sorry for the trouble.
Sent the 10 SBD back to you ;)
received. Thank you very much:)
As much as I believe that 10 SBD a month may be fairly steep, I understand that running a 24/7 high-availability server is no small feat.
I wish you luck with this project going forward; it has definitely been a source of rare actual informational access to the blockchain with tools that anyone might possess.
Anyone using SteemSQL service and providing interesting statistics will make more than 10 SBD with one post. ROI is guaranteed!
Oh, be careful with talk like that. Never guarantee a ROI; somebody might take you seriously and thence to court.
And I don't mean that entirely seriously but I don't mean it entirely un-seriously either.
(I'm pretty sure that I could come up with interesting statistics that no one but me would care about, even if I included really nice graphs. I have a gift for irrelevance.)
Haha... a gift for irrelevance sounds nice! :D
Well, would be curious to see what kind of stats are in your mind.
True. This is why I'm now considering selling some of my Bitshares to purchase a 1 month subscription.