One free way to run an app like this is to run it on Heruko's free tier (maybe appengine has that too). It will have limits on # users and resource use, but at least it will run.
Jason moorepants.info +01 530-601-9791 On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 11:36 PM Aaron Meurer <asmeu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all. > > As you may know, SymPy Gamma (https://sympygamma.com/) is a site that > works similar to Wolfram Alpha, but using SymPy under the hood. SymPy Gamma > runs on the Google App Engine. > > Currently our Google App Engine bills are over $100 a month, with about > 3/4 going to SymPy Gamma and the rest going to SymPy Live. These bills are > paid from our SymPy NumFOCUS account, which is funded from donations. > > This is all money that would be better spent on the SymPy community. > > Additionally, SymPy Gamma is currently very under-maintained. As you can > see from https://github.com/sympy/sympy_gamma, the most recent commit was > from April of last year. These changes are mostly maintenance changes. No > major features have been added to the site since 2014. Furthermore, the > site runs SymPy 1.6.2, which was released in 2020. The primary issue is > that none of us on the SymPy development team are web developers, so are > not really able to do much with the site. > > What I would like to see is for someone to convert SymPy Gamma to > something that uses pyiodide so that it runs entirely in the browser and > does not require any hosting costs. However, this would require someone to > step up and volunteer to do this. It would also be good to do something > similar for SymPy Live (live.sympy.org and the extension in docs.sympy.org), > although this is lower priority right now because SymPy Live is only > costing a third of what SymPy Gamma is. > > By the way, if you are interested in doing this, it might be possible to > get paid to do it via a NumFOCUS small development grant. See > https://groups.google.com/g/sympy/c/VI1BJiWH_aY. Reach out to me if you > are interested. > > Barring this, I suggest we shut down SymPy Gamma entirely. We will leave > the source code up if anyone wants to run it themselves on the App Engine. > > Aaron Meurer > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sympy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAKgW%3D6%2B2FHaYPSmHv%3DYp6NkkxF0w%3DY4eUQsn58aUULxJF4nMHA%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAKgW%3D6%2B2FHaYPSmHv%3DYp6NkkxF0w%3DY4eUQsn58aUULxJF4nMHA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAP7f1AhcMH8RDN3yYX79STMr4OSzjP2zqYWXkEek7PEnmZOBbA%40mail.gmail.com.
