December 28th, 2020 × #hosting#pricing#cloud
Hasty Treat - Hosting + Web Services Pricing Explainer
This episode explains different pricing models for hosting and web services like paying per time used, resources, bandwidth, users, apps, and work performed.
Wes Bos Host
Scott Tolinski Host
In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about how hosting and web services pricing works, and how to figure out what you need, and what you don't.
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Show Notes
01:55 - Per minute
- Spin up, do the work, spin down
- Popular in serverless space
- Can apply to other types of computing such as graphics, AI, machine learning, etc.
03:49 - By resources
- Ram
- CPU
- Disk space
06:02 - Per "dyno"
- These are Heroku Linux servers
- You can add more dynos and make your app faster
- They scale it for you
08:54 - By bandwidth
- Sitting files
- Inbound (ingress)
- Output
12:24 - By DB calls or entries
- Databases
14:04 - By users
- This is more of a Sass thing, but can bleed into hosting too
- Seat-based - Netlify does something like this
17:23 - By apps
- Digital Ocean app platform
- Each app is $5
21:22 - By "work"
- Cloudinary does transforms on images
- Mux
Links
- Heroku
- AWS
- Digital Ocean
- Meteor Galaxy
- Linode
- Rackspace
- MediaTemple
- GoDaddy
- Bluehost
- Backblaze B2
- Mux
- GraphQL
- Github
- Netlify
- 1Password
- Cloudinary
- Firefox Containers
- Chrome grouped tabs
- Brave
- Digital Ocean app platform
- Cloudflare
- Vercel
- Prisma
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