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From the article: > The service will create more and more instances of your application up to the limit you defined The Cloud Run docs confirm an instance max

From the article: > The service will create more and more instances of your application up to the limit you defined The Cloud Run docs confirm an instance maximum can be set and the price per instance can be less than $5/month.

franciscop 7y ago
Cost is not only based on the number of instances. From a quick search: https://www.jhanley.com/google-cloud-run-pricing/ https://www.jhanley.com/google-cloud-run-pricing/ Understanding the cost of these services is not easy at all, especially for extreme cases/situations. And a calculator/estimator won't fix the problem. That is why I love the fixed $X/month where there's no room for surprises.
- cheriot 7y ago
  I hope GCP/AWS add a max spend ability. Until then it's complexity of pricing model vs time spent on OS and database management. To each their own.
  - savrajsingh 7y ago
    You can definitely set limits on GCP
  - franciscop 7y ago
    I use Heroku for these situations where everything is managed automatically. The only con here would be paying more, $20-50/m (Node.js+DB+Redis?) instead of $5/m for DO, but I'm happy to pay for that and spend no time on manual management.
  - misterhtmlcss 7y ago
    It's why I'm on digital ocean. Cheap, but good quality service that's comparable to the big boys and it's capped. $5/month is perfect for me
    - itake 7y ago
      I use DO too, but they have deleted a lot of customer data. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17225665 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17225665 https://blog.checklyhq.com/why-the-recent-digital-ocean-killed-my-company-incident-scares-the-hell-out-of-me/ https://blog.checklyhq.com/why-the-recent-digital-ocean-kill... Keep your stuff backed up.
  - m0zg 7y ago
    The trouble with this is what do you do when your "max spend" is reached? Shut everything down? Shut parts of it down? Most "real world" systems aren't built to have the stool kicked from underneath them like that, so there will be data/business loss and pissed off customers (and in the case of Cloud also pissed off customers' customers).
    - cheriot 7y ago
      The conversation was about side-projects where it's better to have it shut down than drain the owner's checking account. The alternative being an overloaded web server that becomes unavailable.

franciscop 7y ago

Cost is not only based on the number of instances. From a quick search: https://www.jhanley.com/google-cloud-run-pricing/ https://www.jhanley.com/google-cloud-run-pricing/ Understanding the cost of these services is not easy at all, especially for extreme cases/situations. And a calculator/estimator won't fix the problem. That is why I love the fixed $X/month where there's no room for surprises.

cheriot 7y ago
I hope GCP/AWS add a max spend ability. Until then it's complexity of pricing model vs time spent on OS and database management. To each their own.
- savrajsingh 7y ago
  You can definitely set limits on GCP
- franciscop 7y ago
  I use Heroku for these situations where everything is managed automatically. The only con here would be paying more, $20-50/m (Node.js+DB+Redis?) instead of $5/m for DO, but I'm happy to pay for that and spend no time on manual management.
- misterhtmlcss 7y ago
  It's why I'm on digital ocean. Cheap, but good quality service that's comparable to the big boys and it's capped. $5/month is perfect for me
  - itake 7y ago
    I use DO too, but they have deleted a lot of customer data. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17225665 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17225665 https://blog.checklyhq.com/why-the-recent-digital-ocean-killed-my-company-incident-scares-the-hell-out-of-me/ https://blog.checklyhq.com/why-the-recent-digital-ocean-kill... Keep your stuff backed up.
- m0zg 7y ago
  The trouble with this is what do you do when your "max spend" is reached? Shut everything down? Shut parts of it down? Most "real world" systems aren't built to have the stool kicked from underneath them like that, so there will be data/business loss and pissed off customers (and in the case of Cloud also pissed off customers' customers).
  - cheriot 7y ago
    The conversation was about side-projects where it's better to have it shut down than drain the owner's checking account. The alternative being an overloaded web server that becomes unavailable.