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Yes you're right. The CPU you get is pretty beefy, and they do a really poor job of marketing it. I am not sure the average budget constrained developer is the

• Havoc 7mo ago
  >I am not sure the average budget constrained developer is the right audience for this product. Actually think that's their #1 audience. They absolute take an L on raw pricing, but their "don't send me surprise 100k bills" story is very strong. Their billing is prepay and when I was looking at their WAF even the free tier thing it looked solid on rate limit features > intense tasks at the edge for just $600-700 bucks. I'd venture that it would be the wrong tool for that anyway. I'd probably do something like static page on their CDN, dynamic requests to a magic container/function and that passes it on to something VM-ish that isn't publicly exposed. To me 100s of dollar spend in exposed edge compute just doesn't make sense
  • neya 7mo ago
    > To me 100s of dollar spend in exposed edge compute just doesn't make sense Agreed. The example they give for this is something like image processing. Might work well for large publishers I guess.