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Auctionsieve6/21/2023 Pleased with the iOS10 announcement today, it will not add burden to my apps, nor are they sherlocked like my first app was. It is trivial to keep them updated to the latest iOS version, design standard, or advertising API - I've just put Firebase Analytics and the latest Admob API in them all. The great thing is that I can quit and the apps keep making money. When I quit my job I was making approx $3 a day from apps, I learned a lot. My career was computers, and I'm pleased I've done the apps, I can achieve anything technical so it isn't a challenge any more and am looking at something more physical, hands on. That said, it is a lonely way to make money and I am over it. I quit my job 3 years ago to do it, so I guess it isn't really a side project any more. I make between $4000AUD - $9000AUD per month. I have several apps on the iOS app store. I highly recommend Google's new book on SREs whether a one man shop or a multi billion corp, the learnings are exactly the same! I just need to log in and click a button and things are updated, or a new server is built. Even security updates are automated via Ansible/Jenkins. I've only had to fix 'emergency' scenarios about 3 times in the past 5 years though. I have detailed logs and per-search-core stat tracking (queries, index size, query time) for the past 3 months and archives back further, and I have only had to remove noisy neighbors a few times (and did so quickly, by first isolating them on their own VM, then helping them move off to dedicated resources if needed).Īlso, I explicitly state I offer no SLA in the support docs-some people are okay with that.īut yes, I'm always on call, technically. I've been running between 300-500 Apache Solr search cores continuously for almost 5 years, starting with 1.4, migrating up to now 4.10.4 (5 and 6 are in the works), all with around 99.98% uptime (averaged on all the servers over time). restart on fail) services, and simplicity in everything. I learned early on, it's all about proactive monitoring, 'self healing' (e.g. I haven't advertised either except for mentions here and there and having them in some of my social media profiles, but I've learned so much from running both-and even turned some of that knowledge into a book that gives decent passive income on top! Up to about 25 DigitalOcean droplets now, also all managed via Ansible/Jenkins, and it has a few hundred clients (a couple who have been stable clients for over 5 years, and a few very large names that made me realize even a side project can be stable/good enough for 'big companies' to trust them). I also have run Hosted Apache Solr for almost double the time, and it actually earns a decent secondary income. Everything was automated via Ansible early on, and I don't have to touch anything except for patching/updating from time to time. ![]() Just a few updates to the Drupal front-end/UI, and the Node.js backend every year (maybe 20 hours total).Ĭosts are incredibly low, as I have ~15 low end box-type servers running as check servers interacting with Drupal via a private API, and one DigitalOcean droplet running prod, with a hot backup droplet. ![]() ![]() ![]() ), and it's been earning around $2k/year with almost no maintenance. I made Server Check.in 3.5 years ago (HN announcement thread:
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