Re:Show HN: List of serverless failure stories
by seanwilson on Sunday January 20, 2019 @02:41PM
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> Really don't understand why anyone puts a side project on a pay-per-use provider
Serverless isn't always pay per use. Firebase, Netlify and Heroku all have limited free tiers where there's no limit you get to where you get charged.
Compared to a VPS, with the above services I get Git based deploy and don't have to worry about server maintenance beyond specifying e.g. which version of Node or Python I want to use.
Seeing people SSHing into servers to install packages and using Git pull to deploy makes me cringe now. I'd rather get on with coding.
Serverless isn't always pay per use. Firebase, Netlify and Heroku all have limited free tiers where there's no limit you get to where you get charged.
Compared to a VPS, with the above services I get Git based deploy and don't have to worry about server maintenance beyond specifying e.g. which version of Node or Python I want to use.
Seeing people SSHing into servers to install packages and using Git pull to deploy makes me cringe now. I'd rather get on with coding.