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		dexterdog on Aug 17, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 30K Page Views for $0.21: A Serverless Story Without the free tier that would only cost you $6.66 anyway so if your model can't work without the free tier existing it's probably not a model.

voltagex_ on Aug 17, 2016 [–]

$5/month is a small droplet at DigitalOcean, or hell, doesn't the nano server fit that?

dexterdog on Aug 17, 2016 | [–]

Yes, but it doesn't scale up easily and it doesn't scale down at all. If you are doing exactly that amount of traffic on a predictable basis the fixed server makes sense.

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