> and much more vendor lock-in.

This is a myth that really needs to be busted. There is almost no lock in with serverless. The serverless products from all the major providers are nearly identical.

The lock in comes from the services you are using within a particular cloud, which you can avoid if you want to by running everything else in k8s.

regarding your k8s comment, did you mean kubeless?

k8s == kubernetes, like i18n == internationalization

With the difference that you pay per request instead of per month / year. Mind you, given how cheap LAMP webhosts can be, I'm fairly sure they would be cheaper if you don't need the autoscaling.

Seriously, VPS hosts are so far ahead of the cloud when it comes to cost/resource ratio. I can get a 4-core 4GB 120GB SHDD instance for ~$2/month.

https://lowendbox.com/blog/hostedsimply-4gb-ram-ssd-cached-v...

EDIT: cheaper even, $1.58/month:

https://lowendbox.com/blog/n3servers-vps-hosting-and-hybrid-...

Low-cost VPSs are great, but their uptime is usually garbage. I myself run almost everything on a 9€/mo Contabo box (6c, 16GB) and while it's nice and powerful, it gets randomly rebooted way more often than acceptable (and I've heard similar about other hosts). For the "I'll get an angry phone call if the app is down for half an hour at 4 am" category of projects, the cost of a reliable enough VPS comes very close to the equivalent in the cloud, where you also get the benefit of pointing a finger at your provider if something goes wrong.

Doesn't happen to my VPS. I think my uptime is 100% this year.

Does it really? As far as I understand it, in a traditional webhost you have a certain set of resources allocated to your account for which you pay even when 0 traffic hits it. Serverless consists of an isolated chuck of logic that runs only when a request hits your server. When the traffic is 0, server resources are blocked on an idle service.