My intention was certainly not to complain, and so I added the following update to the post.
Update: in hope that this post does not come across as complaining, I want to add that I'm very grateful for the BOSS platform. I don't know where I'd be today without it. At the same time, I'm in a somewhat unique position to comment on it, and I think the above are valid concerns with regards to charging for it that could benefit from more public discussion.
For example, if I were to be solely relying on BOSS, the recent 24hr downtime would have cost DuckDuckGo many users. While I am certainly grateful for the platform, the reality is that if you want to build a serious search engine on it, you need reliability because users require their search engines to be highly available.
While my query volume is certainly lower at night (in the US), it is not by any means zero as DDG has users worldwide. And I'm sure for other international BOSS users, their query volume may peak in those CA off-hours.
Update: in hope that this post does not come across as complaining, I want to add that I'm very grateful for the BOSS platform. I don't know where I'd be today without it. At the same time, I'm in a somewhat unique position to comment on it, and I think the above are valid concerns with regards to charging for it that could benefit from more public discussion.
For example, if I were to be solely relying on BOSS, the recent 24hr downtime would have cost DuckDuckGo many users. While I am certainly grateful for the platform, the reality is that if you want to build a serious search engine on it, you need reliability because users require their search engines to be highly available.
While my query volume is certainly lower at night (in the US), it is not by any means zero as DDG has users worldwide. And I'm sure for other international BOSS users, their query volume may peak in those CA off-hours.