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Ask HN: How much traffic can GCP's f1-micro handle?

Posted by King_mansur on Friday June 16, 2017 @05:53PM
from the ask-hn dept.

According to GCP's free tier page [0], f1-micro is offered for free coupled with 1GB bandwith(?). But I wonder how many users per second can this instance handle? Will it survive "HackerNews spike"? (let's say 400-500 realtime users for a few hours per month)? Any resources to learn more about how to roughly map traffic to number/type of instance, if that is what people do?[0]...

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Ask HN: PaaS for a beginner

Posted by King_mansur on Thursday June 15, 2017 @04:14PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I need to deploy my Flask web app (with a database) to the cloud. I don't want to invest considerable amount of time on setup, that's why I want to go with PaaS, not IaaS.As of 2017, what are the viable options for hosting low traffic web-app (few thousand visits per month) with sudden spikes in traffic (500+ realtime users)?I am deciding between Heroku and App Engine(both have free tier, which...

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