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
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
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
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