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As an indie software maker it frustrates me when I have to pay 50$ dollars to have a decent cloud server setup to run my apps. Yes there are 5$ shared vm-s, but

As an indie software maker it frustrates me when I have to pay 50$ dollars to have a decent cloud server setup to run my apps. Yes there are 5$ shared vm-s, but I want a decent enough ram and cores to lift my load. And a 4gb ram and 4 cores shouldn't cost me 50$ either. I knew when WASM was introduced, this will bring out a new dimension of computing power available at affordable cost. But I wasn't sure how. But now I know. Cloudflare is doing some incredible work here, launching cloudflare workers and then capitalizing it to bring low cost computing to other edges. If lucky, we might enter an era where cloud infrastructure doesn't gets polarized into hands of tech giants like amazon, microsoft and stays affordable as it once was.

welterde 5y ago
There are many many providers that offer deals that are more than within the stated budget. Hetzner Cloud will give you around 16-32GB and more than 4 cores for <50$. For similar amount of money you can also get a dedicated server from them (and many other providers) with > 60GB of RAM, > 4 cores and nvme. Scaleway, OVH and others also have offerings that are not too far off (but less familiar with their offerings).
- Scarbutt 5y ago
  When trying these cloud providers I always come back to AWS, the AWS network is so good.
  - Hamuko 5y ago
    It better be good since it's so expensive. NAT Gateways run on money.
Tomte 5y ago
Oracle Cloud free tier. 4 cores ARM64, 24GB of RAM, 200GB disk.
- ohyeshedid 5y ago
  Fwiw, consensus, in some circles, is that's a very limited offering and they like to entirely delete accounts after the trial if you don't respond to their sales/onboarding emails. They may even continue to email you reminders about your trial expiring and tell you that you can still use all the free tier offerings, even though you can't log in anymore because the account is gone.
- christophilus 5y ago
  It will take about 20 years of flawless, pro-customer execution before I trust Oracle with anything at all.
jeremyjh 5y ago
What does any of this have to do with WASM? WASM is still a second-class citizen on Cloudflare Workers and Javascript is still the only really practical choice.

welterde 5y ago

There are many many providers that offer deals that are more than within the stated budget. Hetzner Cloud will give you around 16-32GB and more than 4 cores for <50$. For similar amount of money you can also get a dedicated server from them (and many other providers) with > 60GB of RAM, > 4 cores and nvme. Scaleway, OVH and others also have offerings that are not too far off (but less familiar with their offerings).

Scarbutt 5y ago
When trying these cloud providers I always come back to AWS, the AWS network is so good.
- Hamuko 5y ago
  It better be good since it's so expensive. NAT Gateways run on money.

Tomte 5y ago

Oracle Cloud free tier. 4 cores ARM64, 24GB of RAM, 200GB disk.

ohyeshedid 5y ago
Fwiw, consensus, in some circles, is that's a very limited offering and they like to entirely delete accounts after the trial if you don't respond to their sales/onboarding emails. They may even continue to email you reminders about your trial expiring and tell you that you can still use all the free tier offerings, even though you can't log in anymore because the account is gone.
christophilus 5y ago
It will take about 20 years of flawless, pro-customer execution before I trust Oracle with anything at all.

jeremyjh 5y ago

What does any of this have to do with WASM? WASM is still a second-class citizen on Cloudflare Workers and Javascript is still the only really practical choice.