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

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