Set Up a $4/Mo Hetzner VM to Skip the Serverless Tax

Re:Set Up a $4/Mo Hetzner VM to Skip the Serverless Tax by joshbetz on Sunday September 01, 2024 @01:57PM (#41418841)

There are some things I host this way as well. On the other hand, I find that having autoscaling and automated deploys makes a big difference in speed I can iterate on some side projects.

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Re:Set Up a $4/Mo Hetzner VM to Skip the Serverless Tax by romeo88 on Sunday September 01, 2024 @02:06PM (#41418902)

Automated deploys are a matter of two lines of script.

Autoscaling in side projects? My side and your side seems to be different :)

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Re:Set Up a $4/Mo Hetzner VM to Skip the Serverless Tax by alserio on Sunday September 01, 2024 @02:27PM (#41419070)

Scaling to 0 can be nice

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Re:Set Up a $4/Mo Hetzner VM to Skip the Serverless Tax by anonzzzies on Monday September 02, 2024 @02:09AM (#41423004)

$4/mo is close to 0 though and I don't run the risk waking up with a 1000$ bill because HN picked up my crappy blogpost.

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Re:Set Up a $4/Mo Hetzner VM to Skip the Serverless Tax by thelastparadise on Sunday September 01, 2024 @02:12PM (#41418944)

Get me thinking:

Are there any good vertical autoscalers out there?

If we simply scaled the machine bigger and bigger (and then smaller) as needed, we'd avoid all the complexities of horizontal auto scaling. The limits of vertical scaling would be rather huge these days.

The simple edit/deploy loop of the blog post would remain 100% usable.

The bonus is that it'd work nicely with using sqlite as a datastore as well.

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