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Hasty Treat - Hosting + Web Services Pricing Explainer

Published: Dec. 28, 2020, 2 p.m.

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\u2019t.

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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 \u201cdyno\u201d

  • 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 \u201cwork\u201d

  • Cloudinary does transforms on images
  • Mux
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