understanding azure billing

[bewest]

How does usage of share2nightscout-bridge affect billing?

• what are the plan types:
  • Free
  • Shared
  • Basic

Please list your experiences with these plans. Include notes about performance, consistency, reliability, and cost, please. If you can also, please give a rough idea of how many people are using your Nightscout site/pebble, etc to help us understand your usage requirements.

[ewhall8]

We are running with the Basic plan at the moment, with the "always on" on. Started somewhere around 9-10 pm last night. Our bill is up to $1.33 so far for less than 24 hours. We have one tablet in the kitchen that mostly stays on, and 2 of us are wearing pebbles. We open the website occasionally on the iOS app in order to enter a care portal treatment. I am hosting a T1 friend's website on our Azure account, but he is currently not using nightscout so that should not be contributing to our plan at the moment. Any time I've tried to change to the shared plan, we stop getting data updates.
Just updated the WebJob and we have the arrow! Awesome. The only thing missing is the rig battery, which I'm guessing probably doesn't apply? We had it last night, but it was not changing so I deleted devicestatus documents and the word "Rig" and percentage disappeared.
I cannot thank you guys enough for working on this. It's great!

[shanselman]

Basic is about $50 a month. The good news is that you can fit MANY nightscout sites on one basic. If you have two kids, make two websites in the same location and share one basic plan. If you have friends or others who run NightScout you can likely get 10-20 sites all running in ONE basic plan.

[toarikaplan]

I made some minor changes and submitted a pull request branch name "Heroku." I configured it with the "Deploy to Heroku" button. Useage falls below the usage fee level and it will work with any site (Azure, Heroku etc.) hosting provider.