That was the catch I didn't realise till I did the math. Thought tbf, unless you're running a production site with really high volume, I doubt in most cases you'll reach the point where serverless cost > cost of running an instance
Serverless is nice if it's done right, but doing it wrong is an expensive mistake. My company had a single physical location hitting a previous devs serverless setup, costing us about $1400 a month. As he was transitioning out, company execs changed and now have a plan to open 10 more in a couple of months. No way we can justify sustaining a serverless model for what we're doing, at least not easily.
My current project is fixing all of that for a more efficient design, non serverless. So far I've done most of it happily on a $10/mo digital ocean instance. I don't expect that it will need any more processing or memory when it's completed, just more storage for logs and update distribution. And time, lots of time redoing a log of things that serverless makes easy.
That smells like a poorly implemented serverless setup or a lack of proper caching. I've run production services with heavy traffic for pennies a month on serverless.
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It is more expensive than server if you use it for everything.
That was the catch I didn't realise till I did the math. Thought tbf, unless you're running a production site with really high volume, I doubt in most cases you'll reach the point where serverless cost > cost of running an instance
Serverless is nice if it's done right, but doing it wrong is an expensive mistake. My company had a single physical location hitting a previous devs serverless setup, costing us about $1400 a month. As he was transitioning out, company execs changed and now have a plan to open 10 more in a couple of months. No way we can justify sustaining a serverless model for what we're doing, at least not easily.
My current project is fixing all of that for a more efficient design, non serverless. So far I've done most of it happily on a $10/mo digital ocean instance. I don't expect that it will need any more processing or memory when it's completed, just more storage for logs and update distribution. And time, lots of time redoing a log of things that serverless makes easy.
That smells like a poorly implemented serverless setup or a lack of proper caching. I've run production services with heavy traffic for pennies a month on serverless.