[Feature Request] Add some sort of Metrics plugin, for example UnifiedMetrics, to the server

[Feature Request] Add some sort of Metrics plugin, for example UnifiedMetrics, to the server

[kaboombot]

We should also take bandwidth usage into consideration. While it's unlikely that we'll ever hit the bandwidth limit on Hetzner with something like this, I don't want to provide a public endpoint that could easily be abused. It's also an aspect I personally care about, seeing how bloated a large portion of the web has become.

We should also take bandwidth usage into consideration. While it's unlikely that we'll ever hit the bandwidth limit on Hetzner with something like this, I don't want to provide a public endpoint that could easily be abused. It's also an aspect I personally care about, seeing how bloated a large portion of the web has become.

From taking a quick look at the screenshots on the UnifiedMetrics GitHub repository, it seems that most of the site graphics are things that should be easily representable using simple CSS/JS (i.e. gradient backgrounds & graphs), so the server probably doesn't need to respond with very many graphics.

Looking at the total bytes transferred statistic available in the Firefox Network tab, it seems that a full uncached page refresh takes up around ~9mb of bandwidth.

It would take around ~222k uncached requests to hit the (I assume) 2TB data cap on Hetzner. I'm not sure how within limits this is.

Maybe you could use Github Pages to host the static files, and then only route the api requests to the hetzner server.

[kaboombot]

Not currently interested in this.