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by leejoramo 437 days ago
The first time I remember seeing a “no use, no pay” plan was with the ProVUE’s Panorama X excellent database application for macOS.

https://provue.com/

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oh this is interesting because I feel like it wouldn't work with infra as that runs in the background and you almost never have zero usage on a DB.
IaaS is mostly like this already. There are some things where it’s not used like VMs which serverless tries to solve. Additionally people tend to waste tons of resources with IaaS because they don’t scale on usage.
Yeah that's exactly what I thought: Infra is usually more usage based