Free tier, like all things, is pretty bad if misused. The reason we want a free tier is to try things out before we can actually commit to something. We don't

Free tier, like all things, is pretty bad if misused. The reason we want a free tier is to try things out before we can actually commit to something. We don't know if what we are doing is actually gonna make money and sometimes we go a few months without working on it. So it's kind of a pain to pay for something we don't use. That's why serverless is also nice to have on our current stage, things can just scale to 0 and there's no wasting of resource. > running on a VM and runs fine on a 5$ a month instance Easier said than done, unfortunately.