List of public RSS Box instances

[stefansundin]

As the public Heroku instance is coming to an end (#61), I wanted to create this discussion to serve as a directory of public RSS Box instances that I and other people host.

If you want to share your own public instance then please comment below. Thank you for helping the community!

If you want to donate to support RSS Box then the best option is to use GitHub sponsors. If that doesn't work then another easy option is to use this PayPal link.

Public instances provided by Stefan

Note: These instances are quite slow so please do not overload them!

• https://rssbox.fly.dev/
• https://rssbox.us-west-2.elasticbeanstalk.com/
  • This one might stop working at some point (probably in a year or two) since I don't like Elastic Beanstalk anymore. (I don't think I ever liked it actually)

Public instances provided by others

None so far

[stefansundin]

The Fly instance (https://rssbox.fly.dev/) may experience some slowness/throttling soon due to https://community.fly.io/t/predictable-processor-performance/22259/8. I don't know how bad it will be but it might be pretty bad, we'll see.

If you are having please try the Elastic Beanstalk instance (https://rssbox.us-west-2.elasticbeanstalk.com/).

I might have to start paying for the Fly instance, or figure out why it is using so much CPU.

[stefansundin]

I upgraded to Ruby 3.4 yesterday and this is looking much better now. I haven't really used the app in the last few months so I don't know how bad it was, but it was definitely throttled a lot. Here's a graph of the last 24 hours.

The red area means there's throttling happening. The baseline is the yellow dotted line at 6%.

[stefansundin]

Nevermind, after a few days it got worse again and started being throttled.

Maybe a good solution is to restart the app every day, similar to what is already done on Elastic Beanstalk.

[stefansundin]

I added a new way to restart the app every 24 hours in ff71cab, and deployed this 5 days ago and it appears to have been working great since then, no throttling so far.