I’ve been working on a simple web app that will let the user favorite Labels and then see a list of the new releases from all their favorite labels. My intention is that it will be for my personal use and that of a few friends, although I will host it on the public web so others could use it if they want.
I initially was hitting the MB API, but staying within the rate limitations made the app so slow that it was barely usable. So I switched to using a replica of MB that I hosted locally and querying its database directly. This worked great for development, but as I’ve started thinking about deploying the app I realized that the cost of hosting my own MB replica would be ~$10 per month and that’s more than I’d like to spend.
Are there any other options? Is there a commercial replica I can pay a small amount to query (either via API or sql)? Or any other way to access the API that doesn’t have the 1 request per second limit?