This looks extremely expensive for anything other than a simple demo/toy project. I can’t think of a reason I’d use this for heavy services instead of using [anything else]. Maybe I’m not seeing the use-case?
The same on Fly Machines is $31.00 (performance-1x, varies by region). Fly Machines has the same sleeping functionality as Cloudflare.
Rivet Containers also has a similar price point of $29.40, but takes a different approach to sleeping (opts for optimizing coldstarts + autoscaling over snapshotting). (I work at Rivet)
This is about using and abusing the _on-demand_ part.
The first example in the Getting started goes with sleepAfter = '10s'.
If the container doesn't run any workloads, it doesn't cost you anything. Most of the compute i pay for sit idle most of the time.
This is amazing pricing.
It seems like always-on containers are not viable on this, so what's the point?
(I work at Rivet)
Think CF lets you rate limit right?some form of it seems necessary with those egress rates
