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by minhmeoke 1454 days ago
Yes, netlify typically does deployment by pushing to a git repo or uploading a zip, the update latency could take several seconds to a few minutes.

Another option is to use something like Firebase:

https://firebase.google.com/docs/hosting

The free tier gives you 2M cloud functions per month, then $0.40 for each additional million cloud function invocations:

https://firebase.google.com/pricing

Update latency is a few hundred milliseconds which should be sufficient if you are sending updates every minute:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37930219/is-firebases-la...

Just be aware that if your JSON payload is large, then you might consume all the egress bandwidth and it might end up costing more than you expect.

There are also alternative platforms which provide similar functionality (I have not used either of these though, so YMMV):

https://backendless.com/pricing/backendless-cloud/#compariso...

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/functions/...

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Thank you so much