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Re:Hyper.sh: Container-native Cloud by tannhaeuser on Thursday August 10, 2017 @05:18AM (#14977915)
How is it better than a normal VM (or have I misunderstood)? You can get a full VPS with dedicated IP on OVH, Hetzner & co. for EUR 3.50/month.
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Re:Hyper.sh: Container-native Cloud by tyingq on Thursday August 10, 2017 @08:17AM (#14978858)
Just pointing out that the 5 second boot time is better than a regular VPS. Which (combined with per second billing) makes this good for batch/cron oriented serverless functionality. But is too slow for "function as a service" type serverless where the end user is waiting for it to fire in a browser.
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Re:Hyper.sh: Container-native Cloud by shawabawa3 on Thursday August 10, 2017 @05:30AM (#14977983)
Boot time is better than a normal VM.

OVH servers you're lucky if you get it in 5 minutes, not 5 seconds.

AWS is more like 60 seconds

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Re:Hyper.sh: Container-native Cloud by nogox on Thursday August 10, 2017 @06:21AM (#14978227)
5 seconds boot + per-second billing is the killer feature.
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