3 ms·

The pricing model of serverless platform is enough for me to not want to use them. Being charged for every little thing your app does is crazy especially when y

The pricing model of serverless platform is enough for me to not want to use them. Being charged for every little thing your app does is crazy especially when you see horror stories of runaway bills because a function has a simple bug in it that you didn't catch and overnight it ran up your bill so high you can't pay it and are now praying the company feels bad for you. I'm scared to use serverless platform unless I don't have to put in my credit card lol. I feel safe paying the same price every month despite my app growing. Servers are powerful these days and are very simple to maintain and scale using cloud platforms because they do it all for you lol.

soco 3y ago
[flagged]
- halfteatree 3y ago
  Did you actually use all the cloud vendors before making this comment? GCP lets you set a max instant count in Cloud Run. It’s in the first screen of setting up a service. It really doesn’t get much simpler than that.
  - dartos 3y ago
    Yeah GCP is the friendliest cloud provider for sure. Still a big, complex platform with tons of features and things to spend money on, but much more friendly than some others (looking at you, AWS)
  - justin101 3y ago
    GCP's max instance count is helpful to a certain extent, but this doesn't completely protect you unless from DDOS attacks. If you have 3 nodes that can all handle 1000 requests per second, and those requests are doing something expensive the max instance limit doesn't help you. Although I guess if you have 3 nodes that can only handle 100 requests each the damage of a DDOS would be much more limited.
    - halfteatree 3y ago
      True, it doesn’t protect you from DDOS. But how is it different from having 3 regular hosts?
  - twism 3y ago
    And a billing limit. plus you get a generous amount in the free tier
justin101 3y ago
I enjoyed Google's GCP for quite a long time until they removed the ability to cap expenses with a budget limit. (It used to be that if you hit your budget limit you can make your site error out). Now everyone on GCP is one DDOS away from a nightmare cloud bill. I'd rather use a traditional server and be able to sleep at night. I moved all my sites and client sites off GCP. The most annoying part is that Googles infrastructure for cloud computing is so much better than the others if you're willing to work within their ecosystem. Simple deployments, version management, rollbacks, etc... There is nothing quite like it. (Im not saying there aren't competitors, just that Google seems easiest to use)
- halfcat 3y ago
  > Simple deployments, version management, rollbacks, etc... There is nothing quite like it. We do all of this with Azure

soco 3y ago

[flagged]

halfteatree 3y ago
Did you actually use all the cloud vendors before making this comment? GCP lets you set a max instant count in Cloud Run. It’s in the first screen of setting up a service. It really doesn’t get much simpler than that.
- dartos 3y ago
  Yeah GCP is the friendliest cloud provider for sure. Still a big, complex platform with tons of features and things to spend money on, but much more friendly than some others (looking at you, AWS)
- justin101 3y ago
  GCP's max instance count is helpful to a certain extent, but this doesn't completely protect you unless from DDOS attacks. If you have 3 nodes that can all handle 1000 requests per second, and those requests are doing something expensive the max instance limit doesn't help you. Although I guess if you have 3 nodes that can only handle 100 requests each the damage of a DDOS would be much more limited.
  - halfteatree 3y ago
    True, it doesn’t protect you from DDOS. But how is it different from having 3 regular hosts?
- twism 3y ago
  And a billing limit. plus you get a generous amount in the free tier

justin101 3y ago

I enjoyed Google's GCP for quite a long time until they removed the ability to cap expenses with a budget limit. (It used to be that if you hit your budget limit you can make your site error out). Now everyone on GCP is one DDOS away from a nightmare cloud bill. I'd rather use a traditional server and be able to sleep at night. I moved all my sites and client sites off GCP. The most annoying part is that Googles infrastructure for cloud computing is so much better than the others if you're willing to work within their ecosystem. Simple deployments, version management, rollbacks, etc... There is nothing quite like it. (Im not saying there aren't competitors, just that Google seems easiest to use)

halfcat 3y ago
> Simple deployments, version management, rollbacks, etc... There is nothing quite like it. We do all of this with Azure