Technical solution for my problem of high fees - help needed

[mouse91]

Hello everyone, I am a web developer and I am in the process of doing course ethereum / solidity. I have a question about creating a web application on ethereum. I've created an example of a smart contract that creates a typical blog post. I included rates in it, so a user who would like to rate a post must perform the "adding rate" function. After testing this contract for the testnet rinkeby - adding the post and evaluation cost amounted to approximately 40 cents. It seems to me that for such operations it is a very high price and when creating such an application for mainnet ethereum, it would be very expensive. Do you have any alternatives to solve this problem - high costs?

[starmyc]

You really should share your contract, as fees really depends of it and its functions. It will difficult to help you if you don't share the code!

[devonneburger7]

Storing a large amount of data on a blockchain will be expensive. Think about it this way, you are paying 40 cents for that amount of data to be replicated over 10's of thousands of nodes and always be available.

You would probably be better off using a blockchain like StorJ or Filecoin for your blog.

[mouse91]

The code and functions are really simple, and still it takes a lot of fee.

What about using rinkeby ? how are other projects that have a lot of counting in their functionality are dealith with it? what are the alternatives that are still decentralized like ethereum?


@devonneburger7

Im talking more executing functions and fees for that instead of hosting space, because thats what StorJ is for right?

[devonneburger7]

If that is the case then the numbers are not adding up.

Can you post a link to your contract?