[discoball]

At 1/10,000th of a server per each tenant (assuming 10,000 tenants) you can achieve “hard” isolation and far more cpu/memory per tenant using a TinkerBoard or something like that per client and charging a flat $2/mo with no hourly fees. That’s a business model that I see materializing that can eat into your business.

EDIT to clarify: I’m assuming they can do 10,000 tenants per server. If they did 1 tenant per 1 TinkerBoard and charged $2/mo for it flat no hourly fee that would be an interesting business model IMO and it achieves hard isolation between tenacts.

[roland-s]

Scaleway out of France has been doing baremetal cloud nodes for years. I used them during the beta and they are fantastic (despite slight latency due to being in France). Their smallest baremetal node starts at €3/mo for 4 ARM cores/2GB RAM/50GB SSD. Pretty cool infrastructure to be able to auto provision physical nodes on demand, but I think it's a different use case from the whole lightweight serverless processes on demand thing.

[discoball]

If only they supported NixOS... I would use them if/when they make the leap.

[spindle]

Are you sure they don't? NixOS can be installed on top of any Linux distribution, unless the hardware is really weird.

ETA: It looks like it is complicated, but might work. See https://nixos.wiki/wiki/NixOS_on_ARM/Scaleway_C1

[kentonv]

We replicate each tenant to thousands of servers across more than 150 locations worldwide. That's why we need to support so many tenants per server.

[discoball]

Ah. I see. TIL something about CDNs. Thanks. Good stuff.

[geofft]

I think you're assuming that Cloudflare has only one server?

[discoball]

Nope. I’m assuming they can do 10,000 tenants per server. If they did 1 tenant per 1 TinkerBoard and charged $2/mo for it flat no hourly fee that would be an interesting business model IMO and it achieves hard isolation between tenants.

[geofft]

But a Workers customer gets to use more than one of their servers at once....

[discoball]

You can have multiple tenants per low cost edge device. ARM servers are finding so many such applications. Not sure what is the hang up?