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Re:The Cost of Being Crawled: LLM Bots and Vercel Image API ... by jsheard on Monday April 14, 2025 @08:45PM (#43687883)
It's the usual PaaS convenience tax, you end up paying an order of magnitude or so premium for the underlying bandwidth and compute. AIUI Vercel runs on AWS so in their case it's a compound platform tax, AWS is expensive even before Vercel adds their own margin on top.
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Re:The Cost of Being Crawled: LLM Bots and Vercel Image API ... by cachedthing0 on Monday April 14, 2025 @08:51PM (#43687914)
I would call it ignorance tax, paas can be fine if you know what you are doing.
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