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Serverless is pretty big in the PHP world, but people there tend to call it "shared hosting".
by mintplant 10y ago
Serverless is pretty big in the PHP world, but people there tend to call it "shared hosting".
- takeda 10y agoThat's quite good observation, I did not even thought about it. It's another marketing hype of just repackaging old solution with a cooler name.
- runako 10y agoAre there shared PHP hosts that bill by the request? TFA indicates that is a key difference of serverless, and why it's not shared hosting. The billing model matters to some users as much as the implementation. Serverless is just shared hosting like S3 is just FTP.
- niftich 10y agoThis, and, in shared hosting you're paying for an instance and if you overload your traffic or utilization you're done. In 'serverless' (awful, awful marketing name for function-calls-as-a-service), your computation will be executed on one among a pool of executor units from which you are abstracted away from; therefore in theory your throughput scales to accommodate demand (impacts on your wallet notwithstanding). But this is there the name comes from -- there's no 'server' as in, a box you can ssh or sftp into and muck around with files or configurations.
- kuschku 10y agoThere used to be quite a few PHP hosts that billed by the request in the past, so, yes?
- runako 10y agoInteresting -- would love to compare one of these to e.g. Lambda. Would you mind sharing a link to one of these services? Edit: Also, as a peer comment pointed out, Lambda (and the like) have other differences from traditional shared hosting as well. I'm not convinced Lambda is all that similar to the shared hosting I remember from the '90s.
- cweagans 10y agoI've been writing PHP for almost a decade and I've never come across any PHP hosts that bill by the request. Not explicitly, anyway -- there were always those hosts where if you got over some threshold of traffic and it caused a certain amount of load on the servers, they'd cut you off with no warning/notice. Those hosts suck. Never seen anything like Lambda for PHP, though. Care to share?
- kuschku 10y agoWell, there was a host – they shut down years ago, though – which did it. And there were always the kind of hosts which had no quota, and no fee, but where you’d pay based on how much you wanted to in a given month, but you’d be expected – honor system – to pay more the more you used, with a rough formula how much would be expected from you (but you’d never be terminated).