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Durable objects seem so cool but the pricing always scares me. (Specifically, having to worry about getting hibernation right.) They’d be a great fit for our yj

Durable objects seem so cool but the pricing always scares me. (Specifically, having to worry about getting hibernation right.) They’d be a great fit for our yjs document based strategy, but while everything in prod still works on plain ol redis and Postgres, it’s hard to justify an exploration.

ignoramous 2y ago
> Specifically, having to worry about getting hibernation right. As long as the client doesn't exchange websocket messages with DO, it'll hibernate. From what I can tell, ping/pong frames don't count towards uptime, if you're worried about that.
attilakun 2y ago
Does CloudFlare have proper spending caps? If they have, I'd be open to try DOs but if they don't, it's a non-starter for an indie dev as I can't risk bankruptcy due to a bad for loop.
- viraptor 2y ago
  It's not just the listed prices either. There was a story here not long ago where they essentially requested someone to migrate to an enterprise plan or get out. With AWS it's pretty common to get a refund for accidental abuse. From my contact so far and from stories here, I wouldn't expect anything close to that treatment from CF.
anentropic 2y ago
What scares me is it is super specific to Cloudflare What is your option if you want to eject to another cloud?
- paulgb 2y ago
  For the specific example of a Yjs backend, I happen to be working on one that can be hosted either on Cloudflare or as a native process. We’ve had people running in production migrate from cloudflare to native just by swapping out the URL they connect to in their application config. https://github.com/jamsocket/y-sweet https://github.com/jamsocket/y-sweet