If that’s your opinion I’d like to hear your rebuttal to this [1]. It’s hard to argue against actual numbers for an actual production app running at actual scale.
if you are spending 279 using complicated cloudflare worker/azure function setup, you could have gotten away with $100 month if you have choosen linode/droplets.
32 million requests can be easily served with $50/month heroku node.
I think you massively mis-read the article. $279/mo is what he would have spent. What he actually spends is under $1/mo. Sure a $50/mo Heroku box would do the trick but why spend $49/mo MORE when serverless is cheaper?
What I want to hear is how you argue serverless is “snake oil” when evidence says it’s massively cheaper even at scale. Less than $1/mo to serve 141m requests. How is that snake oil when even you say an equivalent “serverfull” solution costs 50x more?
But see, none of that is true. Everything you just said is misleading at best and completely false at worse. Especially the part about the free tier. This isn’t the 12 month free trial, this is the “free forever”. Sure prices can change but they can change for servers too. That’s no different, and you can’t waste time/effort trying to engineer a solution for a problem that doesn’t yet exist and may never exist.
I think I’ve heard enough to say you have no idea what you’re talking about and this conversation has become pointless.
32 million requests can be easily served with $50/month heroku node.