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How 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.
by tannhaeuser 9y ago
How 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.