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by stereographic 2692 days ago
This is pretty edge case for who it would be useful for in my opinion?

I have a small droplet on digital ocean I use to host a few small personal projects. $5/month is pretty reasonable and if I don't want to sign up for AWS, this is a fairly beneficial thing to know about.

For people who want to use serverless functionality for cost benefit, it's probably not as helpful.

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Serious question, what is the benefit to "serverless functionality" if not financial? The only benefit I'm aware of in micro-/milli-second level billing, and the infrastructure being obfuscated away from you.
Personally, it would be the benefit of not running 10+ express apps on a small server 24/7. I use a small server for personal projects and the traffic they get is minimal, but I also run a few small utilities off the same low-spec server 24/7. This is about the only benefit I see personally for me