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If Google cloud ain’t your jam then checkout browserless (https://browserless.io/ https://browserless.io/). It can be considerably cheaper under certain situati

If Google cloud ain’t your jam then checkout browserless (https://browserless.io/ https://browserless.io/). It can be considerably cheaper under certain situations, and we’ve been up and running for almost a year. Happy to answer questions if anyone has any. EDIT: We’ve got stuff on GH: https://github.com/joelgriffith/browserless https://github.com/joelgriffith/browserless, and startup is under 100ms most of the time. Fonts and other things “just work” as well, plus there’s a slew of REST APIs for common stuff as well. Selenium webdriver support landing soon!

jotto 8y ago
...and if browserless ain't your jam, checkout https://www.prerender.cloud/ https://www.prerender.cloud/ cheap, because we optimized for just 3 things: pre-rendering, screenshots, or PDFs for $0.000365 per API request curl https://service.prerender.cloud/screenshot/https://google.com/ > out.jpg curl https://service.prerender.cloud/pdf/https://google.com/ > out.pdf curl https://service.prerender.cloud/https://google.com/ > out.html
- jotto 8y ago
  note: prerender.cloud just keeps a pool of instances running, so there is no startup latency, compared to Google Cloud functions
- Operyl 8y ago
  Pricing is in tiers, not per request as you seem to imply?
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  - jotto 8y ago
    Correct, only the final tier is variable rate; apologies for the confusion. Under 20,000 monthly requests = $9 flat rate ($0.00045) Under 100,000 monthly requests = $40 flat rate ($0.0004) >= 100,000 monthly requests = variable rate @ $0.00036/req
    - Operyl 8y ago
      Yeah, that's completely different than what you were trying to imply. Still a cool service, though.
brennebeck 8y ago
You’ve got a minor typo on your marketing site: http://s.rnbk.org/Photo-2018-08-20-05-41-P8447NLVuohO3iFOLhKW.jpg http://s.rnbk.org/Photo-2018-08-20-05-41-P8447NLVuohO3iFOLhK... (They)
- mrskitch 8y ago
  Ouch, thanks for the heads up!

jotto 8y ago

...and if browserless ain't your jam, checkout https://www.prerender.cloud/ https://www.prerender.cloud/ cheap, because we optimized for just 3 things: pre-rendering, screenshots, or PDFs for $0.000365 per API request curl https://service.prerender.cloud/screenshot/https://google.com/ > out.jpg curl https://service.prerender.cloud/pdf/https://google.com/ > out.pdf curl https://service.prerender.cloud/https://google.com/ > out.html

jotto 8y ago
note: prerender.cloud just keeps a pool of instances running, so there is no startup latency, compared to Google Cloud functions
Operyl 8y ago
Pricing is in tiers, not per request as you seem to imply?
- deleted 8y ago
  [deleted]
- jotto 8y ago
  Correct, only the final tier is variable rate; apologies for the confusion. Under 20,000 monthly requests = $9 flat rate ($0.00045) Under 100,000 monthly requests = $40 flat rate ($0.0004) >= 100,000 monthly requests = variable rate @ $0.00036/req
  - Operyl 8y ago
    Yeah, that's completely different than what you were trying to imply. Still a cool service, though.

brennebeck 8y ago

You’ve got a minor typo on your marketing site: http://s.rnbk.org/Photo-2018-08-20-05-41-P8447NLVuohO3iFOLhKW.jpg http://s.rnbk.org/Photo-2018-08-20-05-41-P8447NLVuohO3iFOLhK... (They)

mrskitch 8y ago
Ouch, thanks for the heads up!