This project is now accepting Ko-fi donations! ☕
All coffees will go directly towards funding hosting of a Starter instance of Ranked Records on Render.
Background
Ranked Records currently runs on a free instance of Render.
⬆️ The upside of this is that it is free
⬇️ The downside of this is that a free tier has it's limitations. The biggest one is that the site goes to sleep after inactivity and is spun-up whenever it receives a new request. This leads to load times of around 30 seconds.
The Purpose of Ko-fi
The site is fully functional on the free tier, but I can see the load time being annoying for some users. That's why I'm opening Ko-fi to fund the Starter tier on Render for this project.
This costs $7/month, and will allow Ranked Records to always remain running without needing the service to spin-up. Basically, the service will have infinite uptime (unless Render goes down).
Ko-fi donations will always go towards funding the Starter tier. If less than $7 is accumulated for a month, I'll wait until it accumulates to that amount.
I always want Ranked Records to be a free service, and regardless of Ko-fi donations, it will remain running on the free tier.