Re: hosting lua.org

[Petite Abeille <petite.abeille@...>]

> On Aug 17, 2023, at 16:01, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
> 
> We are open to all solutions.
> Our goal is reliability first, flexibility second.
> Friendliness towards Lua is a major plus.

lua.org is mostly static, right?

Perhaps a github + netlify combo could cover lua.org <http://lua.org/> — both service are free for that purpose. See example of such setup: [01] ⤳ [02] ⤳ [03].

Not sure what's required to run lua-l (mailman [04]?), but perhaps a few µcompute nodes such as fly.io <http://fly.io/> would do [05]? Their free allowance is good enough — if frugal.

And perhaps a mix of the above for lua-users.org <http://lua-users.org/>, as it seems to have a bit of dynamic content (i.e. wiki).

Otherwise, for a more do-it-yourself approach, a small set of VMs cost a few dollars per month — e.g. a basic DigitalOcean Droplet cost around USD 4 per month.

Irrespectively of physical infrastructure, the main cost of these lua resources would most likely be administration, and maintenance —i.e. your time to keep them running.

[01] https://github.com/textprotocol/textprotocol.github.io
[02] https://app.netlify.com/sites/textprotocol/deploys
[03] https://textprotocol.org/
[04] Mailman apparently, e.g. X-Mailman-Version: 3.2.1
[05] https://fly.io/docs/about/pricing/#free-allowances
[06] https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/droplets#basic-droplets