One year ago, SteemSQL moved to a subscription model to be able to sustain its infrastructure, maintenance and development costs.
Resource requirements for SteemSQL have continued to increase as that the amount of data managed by the server grows every day. As of writing this post, the database size is now close to 1.5 terabytes.
Every day, SteemSQL has to manage around 20 thousand requests per minute.
High availability is important for the numerous apps and processes relying on SteemSQL. It proudly offered a 100% uptime over the last year and it proved to be of great help to solve the crash of the last hardfork 20/21.
The few minutes downtime you see in the above table was when I needed to make some maintenance on the infrastructure.
Updated subscription fee
Needless to say that maintaining such an infrastructure has a cost and, while SteemSQL subscription fees have remained quite stable, on the other hand, SBD price has become very volatile last time and we saw its value divided by 2!*
Therefore, SteemSQL subscription fee has been changed as follow:
The Monthly Subscription fee changes to 40 SBD/month
The Daily Subscription fee changes to 2 SBD/day
For more informtion about SteemSQL subscriptions, check SteemSQL’s website
This price change will have no impact on active subscriptions. Any active subscription will expire at the expected date. Up to you to renew it using the new subscription fee.
Disclaimer
Be careful when activating or renewing your subscription !
Any subscription activation/renewal using the old fee will be refunded and your subscription will not be created/extended.
Any other amount sent to
@steemsql with an amount different than the daily or monthly fee will be considered as a donation to the SteemSQL project.
There will be no refund unless it is proven that you have not received confirmation of your subscription via a transfer with your login information.
Thanks for reading!