It's been almost two years since Vision became available to @everyone.
It's been a long and wonderful journey from a small service I made for myself and some friends that ran on a $1 virtual server and struggled to keep even a few characters online to the system that now handles up to 10k requests per minute with over 99% uptime and processes tens of gigabytes of data every day to give you all the info about what happens to your characters.
All this time I have kept Vision free for all users and I would very much like to keep it that way in the future.
However, as the number of users grows and new features are added, the server bills for Vision increase every month, so it becomes more and more difficult for me to support such a large project alone. Everything looks as if in order to keep Vision working, I will be forced to make it paid.
I'm still not entirely comfortable with this decision and hope to find other options, but so far I don't have any. For a while, Vision will remain free while I still have money to pay for the servers, but after that Vision will become paid to reduce the costs and finally add some new features that could not be implemented right now.
I thought it would be fair to write to you about this in advance and explain the reason for this.
If you want to support Vision and keep it free for as long as possible, you can donate some crypto to help me pay for the servers:
BTC: bc1qyq4juhf8kvt6lcg5hpvuv0mlsptqj9r89uhgzs
ETH: 0x7df3a1aD7E69cc20710A30C6ae2DdDff5888A5dD
LTC: LYJ8VUMFLn3QBmZ2LjsuJiLZWwVSM3jcqN
XMR: 45dyKdDzMH5haeiAaq7ifJbQefBFbMw7VfeSh7roMNXgVsSVEzF1Md1LQVq6SJLezsBRy9Luz7JyT6HSHzenBv4oVCJggYe
It's been a long and wonderful journey from a small service I made for myself and some friends that ran on a $1 virtual server and struggled to keep even a few characters online to the system that now handles up to 10k requests per minute with over 99% uptime and processes tens of gigabytes of data every day to give you all the info about what happens to your characters.
All this time I have kept Vision free for all users and I would very much like to keep it that way in the future.
However, as the number of users grows and new features are added, the server bills for Vision increase every month, so it becomes more and more difficult for me to support such a large project alone. Everything looks as if in order to keep Vision working, I will be forced to make it paid.
I'm still not entirely comfortable with this decision and hope to find other options, but so far I don't have any. For a while, Vision will remain free while I still have money to pay for the servers, but after that Vision will become paid to reduce the costs and finally add some new features that could not be implemented right now.
I thought it would be fair to write to you about this in advance and explain the reason for this.
If you want to support Vision and keep it free for as long as possible, you can donate some crypto to help me pay for the servers:
BTC: bc1qyq4juhf8kvt6lcg5hpvuv0mlsptqj9r89uhgzs
ETH: 0x7df3a1aD7E69cc20710A30C6ae2DdDff5888A5dD
LTC: LYJ8VUMFLn3QBmZ2LjsuJiLZWwVSM3jcqN
XMR: 45dyKdDzMH5haeiAaq7ifJbQefBFbMw7VfeSh7roMNXgVsSVEzF1Md1LQVq6SJLezsBRy9Luz7JyT6HSHzenBv4oVCJggYe