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by bikamonki 3730 days ago
The pricing structure is missing a couple of middle tiers and overall the service lacks useful features. For instance: I could buy a $5/mo droplet in Digital Ocean, one click install node, even use my own domain and manage deployments/restarts almost as easy. For that money I get 1TB transfer and 20GB ssd and many more features (b/c I basically get a VPS where I can do whatever). It takes me 10 min to setup the server and zero minutes to deploy each new version (I use deploybot so every git push is really a deployment).

Some things are not clear:

"Dynamic realtime scaling" Forever? Unlimited? Say 1MM concurrent API calls for $15/mo?

URLs change after each deployment? Do I need to update endpoints on all clients?