Can make it hosted but probably easiest to just make it cache locally but force imgur links just so its a basic database and webworker.

No plans to add this extra infrastructure. I want to make more mods and features rather than something like this for now.

To reduce the cost on my behalf as well as to improve performance merge the user skin requests into batches with a limit to how many you'll do per request.

I've made webapps but never actually of this sorta structure or just letting them scale themselves. So ill look into practising this for the sake of experience and testing how much it costs. So sorry if I end up making something and data gets cleared at all. I will make announcements if things have happened to the data.

To authenticate users we will either make a basic thing or use https://mc-oauth.net/

Just for the sake of having some fun, I will be bringing a friend in to help with this ;) (in case anyone is taking a peek at this now or in the future)