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I agree its a misnomer, however appropriate to technically describe whats happening in one word. Its a computing model people recognize .. https://en.wikipedia
by gigapotential 3y ago
I agree its a misnomer, however appropriate to technically describe whats happening in one word.
Its a computing model people recognize .. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serverless_computing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serverless_computing
- GordonS 3y agoBut wouldn't this be more appropriately termed IaaS (infrastructure as a service) than serverless?
- koito17 3y ago...or "on-demand VPN server" in the case of UpVPN. But none of these alternative names market as well as "Severless", so we're stuck with "Serverless" whether we like it or not.
- lxgr 3y agoIt's just a consumer VPN service... as a service! Nobody calls Netflix a "serverless VOD platform" either, or Verizon a "serverless wireless carrier".
- slim 3y agowhy is it important to me as a user, that you provision servers on demand ?
- lxgr 3y agoBut is it even appropriate in this context? To me, "serverless" means "you'd normally be setting up a server yourself in some way (whether low-level and manually, or via a standardized VM or container image orchestration solution), but here you don't have to". As a VPN user (of this type of VPN in any case; corporate VPNs are a different beast), I've never had to set up a server myself – I'm paying to use somebody else's server! In other words, we also don't call Gmail "serverless".