Hey @jesta,
Finding a set of servers somewhere to run the production build of chainBB, and determining an easy way to spin up new instances.
Hadn't a look at your code so far, but in most cases the best answer to this is AWS + Docker. If you need help feel free to ping me :) This project has to become big!
That'd be ideal - I just worry it'd end up costing me a fortune to run the servers.
I'm going to need a fast steemd full node on a dedicated host (which will consume ~40gb RAM) and a small-ish DB server (8gb RAM probably) to start. As it grows the DB servers for the indexes will likely need to be some sort of cluster.
Luckily the frontend is all JS, so I can just toss that on cloudfront :)
Haha :D I would have the same fear if you would pay for the traffic as this project could cause a lot of it :P
But actually you can pay for each hour:
Source
And you can stop the servers immediatly if the costs are getting too high.
I actually do not know what your future goals are, but if this becomes more than a "fun-project" for you and you are going to fund a company you could think about adding google ads between the posts. At least ~2 years ago finance and crypto ads got paid really really good because there are not that much sites available. This paired with some steemit update posts should cover the costs for sure.
Thanks for replying and best regards,
@dez1337