In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about how hosting and web services pricing works, and how to figure out what you need, and what you don’t.
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Show Notes 01:55 - Per minute
Spin up, do the work, spin down
Popular in serverless space
Can apply to other types of computing such as graphics, AI, machine learning, etc.
03:49 - By resources
Ram
CPU
Disk space
06:02 - Per “dyno”
These are Heroku Linux servers
You can add more dynos and make your app faster
They scale it for you
08:54 - By bandwidth
Sitting files
Inbound (ingress)
Output
12:24 - By DB calls or entries
Databases
14:04 - By users
This is more of a Sass thing, but can bleed into hosting too
Seat-based - Netlify does something like this
17:23 - By apps
Digital Ocean app platform
Each app is $5
21:22 - By “work”
Cloudinary does transforms on images
Mux
Links Heroku
AWS
Digital Ocean
Meteor Galaxy
Linode
Rackspace
MediaTemple
GoDaddy
Bluehost
Backblaze B2
Mux
GraphQL
Github
Netlify
1Password
Cloudinary
Firefox Containers
Chrome grouped tabs
Brave
Digital Ocean app platform
Cloudflare
Vercel
Prisma
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