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Okay, but who's taking care of the actual host? I know this is HN and we're all server admin wizards, but there is some effort and maintenance required. This i

• jokethrowaway 3y ago
  That's an overblown problem, especially for a small business which is not going to have the infra problem of someone with scale problems. We've just been sold lies that pushed us to buy expensive clouds - and are not that much simpler than good old tools
  • ketzo 3y ago
    I agree that "it's way too much effort to ever consider running your code on your own servers / EC2 instances" is overblown, and has very much favored cloud providers. But for the specific problem of "I wanna execute some code on a regular schedule, but I want it to be production-ready", Deno Cron does seem much quicker and lighter than provisioning a host, setting up health checks, setting up remote access controls for new devs, etc. There are obviously many people who would find it very easy to do all the "server-work" I'm describing. I am not one of them! This service looks awesome to me.