[rtcode_io]

Deno Deploy dropped from 35 GCP regions to just 12: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39127598

[vorticalbox]

sure but is that a bad thing? this regions probably see next to or zero use and cutting them frees up money to be used on other things.

[qprofyeh]

They’re operating like a startup, which like you say should be perfectly fine. Can’t pretend like a giant when you don’t have the bank account for that.

Though they’re also selling a developer ecosystem. A lock-in. Are you willing to bet your company’s own software tools on a vendor that could go bankrupt from their other (hosting) business? The question is if Deno hosting dies, will Deno as a platform still thrive?

[PoignardAzur]

I think by now accusations of lock-in are a bit shaky. They're providing self-hosted alternatives for all the features of their ecosystem (and it's all open-source anyway).

[skybrian]

I'm just writing hobbyist software, but I'm not too worried. My backup plan is to put my Deno app in a Docker file and deploy it somewhere.

(It's a bit trickier than that since the SQLite database holding the KV store would need to be backed up, but it seems doable with Litestream?)

[vorticalbox]

> The question is if Deno hosting dies, will Deno as a platform still thrive?

that I am unsure about, a large part of the appeal at least for me is the deno deploy.

URL imports are a bit of a hassle when you are trying to get them from say a private github repo.

[soulofmischief]

Deno supports package.json now

https://docs.deno.com/runtime/manual/node/package_json

[tracker1]

I don't think Deno itself is going anywhere if the startup fails, there's also self hosting.

It's be tough, but going the other way to Node as a transition is entirely possible with relatively minor effort.

[re-thc]

> sure but is that a bad thing? this regions probably see next to or zero use

If it's a startup looking for growth then definitely. Future prospects may no longer signup because the needed region isn't available.

[maeil]

If anyone from Supabase is reading here, your main marketing page still says Edge Functions run on 29 regions. Since they run off of Deno Deploy, it seems like this needs updating.

[kiwicopple]

thanks - will update. It is actually hosted on our own side but I don’t think we are in 29 regions and clearly forgot to update this when we migrated. I’ll figure out the exact number and create a PR