Something that would solve a great amount of problems with resource usage both for emoncms.org and self hosted users alike is a temporary feed that stores information for a limited ammount of time, discarding the old data.
I’d like to have feeds updating every second for the last 24 hours for real-time usage viewing and troubleshooting, and even though I’m self hosted, it’s a large amount of data to keep accumulating forever.
Then I can have historical feed with 10s or less update rate,that can also be time limited (2 years for example) and keep cumulative data such as kWh per day since the beginning.
Your servers hosting emoncms.org must have lots of very old data at 10s rate that maybe meaningless to the users but they got to have that update rate to get an acceptable real-time usage view.