Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Full Stack Developers Wes Bos and Scott Tolinski dive deep into web development topics, explaining how they work and talking about their own experiences. They cover from JavaScript frameworks like React, to the latest advancements in CSS to simplifying web tooling.

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Hasty Treat - Hosting + Web Services Pricing Explainer


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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 December 28, 2020  26m