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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