Paying $0.21 to serve 30k pageviews over an hour is expensive.
Paying $0.21 to serve 30k pageviews over a month is dirt cheap.
He did the latter, stop comparing to the former. The smallest VPS you can get is 10$/month.
Paying $0.21 to serve 30k pageviews over a month is dirt cheap.
He did the latter, stop comparing to the former. The smallest VPS you can get is 10$/month.
Otherwise, point taken, but I'd imagine the scenarios where cutting cost by ~$10 or ~$4 per month matters are relatively few.
Serverless is only cost effective in low traffic cases. If you get a stable or high volume of request, a traditional server is way cheaper.