12 ms·

Respectfully if you can’t afford the $5 you shouldn’t be wasting dev time on a POC. And further you are signaling to cloudflare that you would be a terrible cus

Respectfully if you can’t afford the $5 you shouldn’t be wasting dev time on a POC. And further you are signaling to cloudflare that you would be a terrible customer. If I were them I’d raise the price tier.

jgrahamc 8y ago
For some people $5 is a lot of money. I sympathize.
- dbbk 8y ago
  If you're building something that requires workers you're surely already spending far more than $5 on other architecture?
  - detaro 8y ago
    "Requires"? Maybe. In a business setting, sure, $5/month should be nothing. But for "let's play with this serverless stuff and maybe use it for something real in the future", $0 AWS lambda wins over $60/y Cloudflare workers. Or for hobby projects, doing it traditionally and running it on the $60/y VPS I already have instead of spending the money. And if asked later, CF is going to be the one I can't give a direct assessment of.
- kasey_junk 8y ago
  I too sympathize with people for whom $5 is a lot of money. I would suggest to those that have the skills to make use of cloudflare workers that there are more straightforward ways to change that problem than building proof of concepts against them.
- amrx431 8y ago
  Not every one is paid in $. There are devs who live in countries with currencies that have lower value when compared to $.
  - mises 8y ago
    Dollars are the international reserve currency, like it or not (and believe me, Russia and China don't and are trying to change it). But for now, that means dollars are the most convenient form for buyers and sellers, typically. Also, if the currency is of lower value, they get paid more. Example being the English pound is of a higher denomination than a dollar, but whether it's "worth more" is dictated by purchasing power, relative movement over time, etc.
- deleted 8y ago
  [deleted]
benmanns 8y ago
My reason: I want to create things that other people can run on their own for ~free and scale with usage. Services that can spin down to 0 (or under a free tier) are ideal. Examples: Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, Cloudflare DNS. If you have to pay $5 for Cloudflare Workers, $5 for some more page rules, $13 for your (light usage) Postgres instance, $7.50 for your t3.micro, you're already at $30/mo baseline and you're not close to high availability.

jgrahamc 8y ago

For some people $5 is a lot of money. I sympathize.

dbbk 8y ago
If you're building something that requires workers you're surely already spending far more than $5 on other architecture?
- detaro 8y ago
  "Requires"? Maybe. In a business setting, sure, $5/month should be nothing. But for "let's play with this serverless stuff and maybe use it for something real in the future", $0 AWS lambda wins over $60/y Cloudflare workers. Or for hobby projects, doing it traditionally and running it on the $60/y VPS I already have instead of spending the money. And if asked later, CF is going to be the one I can't give a direct assessment of.
kasey_junk 8y ago
I too sympathize with people for whom $5 is a lot of money. I would suggest to those that have the skills to make use of cloudflare workers that there are more straightforward ways to change that problem than building proof of concepts against them.
amrx431 8y ago
Not every one is paid in $. There are devs who live in countries with currencies that have lower value when compared to $.
- mises 8y ago
  Dollars are the international reserve currency, like it or not (and believe me, Russia and China don't and are trying to change it). But for now, that means dollars are the most convenient form for buyers and sellers, typically. Also, if the currency is of lower value, they get paid more. Example being the English pound is of a higher denomination than a dollar, but whether it's "worth more" is dictated by purchasing power, relative movement over time, etc.
deleted 8y ago
[deleted]

benmanns 8y ago

My reason: I want to create things that other people can run on their own for ~free and scale with usage. Services that can spin down to 0 (or under a free tier) are ideal. Examples: Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, Cloudflare DNS. If you have to pay $5 for Cloudflare Workers, $5 for some more page rules, $13 for your (light usage) Postgres instance, $7.50 for your t3.micro, you're already at $30/mo baseline and you're not close to high availability.