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They have per-second billing. Use it as serverless.
by initdaemon 9y ago
They have per-second billing. Use it as serverless.
- tyingq 9y ago5 second boot time though. Better than a normal VM, but maybe not great for user facing serverless.
- initdaemon 9y agoYeah, batch job, cron are the better fit. I also think serverless != FaaS.
- tannhaeuser 9y agoHow is it better than a normal VM (or have I misunderstood)? You can get a full VPS with dedicated IP on OVH, Hetzner & co. for EUR 3.50/month.
- shawabawa3 9y agoBoot time is better than a normal VM. OVH servers you're lucky if you get it in 5 minutes, not 5 seconds. AWS is more like 60 seconds
- nogox 9y ago5 seconds boot + per-second billing is the killer feature.
- tyingq 9y agoJust pointing out that the 5 second boot time is better than a regular VPS. Which (combined with per second billing) makes this good for batch/cron oriented serverless functionality. But is too slow for "function as a service" type serverless where the end user is waiting for it to fire in a browser.