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Koyeb Serverless Engine: Docker Containers, Continuous Deployment of Functions

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The lack of known pricing makes me nervous to give this a shot. The one year free tier is very generous but without knowing what my bill as a hobbyist might look like after that, real shy about giving it a go.

I'm Yann, one of the co-founder of Koyeb. Thanks for your interest!

To give you an idea, we charge $1 per 10 hours of compute, accounted by 100ms. Each function or container has 1GB of RAM available. We also charge $0.01/GB of bandwidth.

The business plans include multi-user, longer log retention, custom S3 supports (on-premise) and advanced SLA.

I would be happy to further discuss that with you, you can contact me through the website or on slack.koyeb.com.

> We also charge $0.01/GB of bandwidth

Can I ask why you are charging such a high price for bandwidth, or indeed why you are charging for it at all?

The only providers I know of that charge such ludicrously high prices for bandwidth are AWS, Azure and GCP - and it's frequently called out on HN as being a despised practice.

I’m really surprised that you call our bandwidth price “ludicrously high”. I might not have been clear in my previous comment, currently we’re providing 5TB/mo of free transfer and will always maintain a significant free tier for the bandwidth. We intend to maintain a forever free plan.

As far as I know, our bandwidth price is one of the lowest in the cloud/hosting market. We’re charging for bandwidth because our own providers do charge for it. We do not earn any money out of it, we’re simply covering our own hosting costs.

There is two models to charge bandwidth in the hosting/cloud market: with a limited bandwidth (e.g. 1Gb/s) and per GB. Most cloud providers are charging by GB, AWS, Azure and GCP are charging between $0.05 and $0.23, so between 5x and 23x more. DigitalOcean, Vultr and Linode charge $0.01, so the same price. European providers like OVH and Scaleway cap the bandwidth. Do you have any example of providers with a significantly lower price?

Gah, I'm really sorry, I think I've been silly and mis-read "0.01" as "0.10" :(

At the time I also hadn't seen about the 5TB included transfer.

Unfortunately I can no longer edit/delete my comment, but I hope this serves as a rebuttal.

This might come handy to resize all the images for my static website, which was hammered by HN this week as it reached the front page. This lack of optimisation increased my AWS invoice 3 times (because of CloudFront outgoing bandwidth).

Cache your images longer at cloudflare's edge:

  New Page Rule -> your.site/*.png (or jpg, gif, etc)
  Cache Level: Everything
  Edge Cache TTL: (some large value, an hour maybe)

This will make sure you don't serve any given image more than once per hour, and the rest of the requests will get served CF's edge cache.

What is the best practice to ship the compiled data to an rdbms from your platform? I am asking because you list data science in your use cases and most data from analytics jobs ends in a database eventually

Looks interesting, curious to try it with our "assets-centered" workflows!

This space is getting more and more interesting. Keeping an eye on this solution.

I've seen the event-driven idea implemented on AWS with lambdas that launch ECS tasks, but it's a pain.

As I understand it, you can define a docker image, and run your function in it?

Hi Eric,

Yann, co-founder of Koyeb here.

You can actually deploy both: * docker containers, in this case you build your own container and we deploy/host it for you with native autoscaling. It's really useful if you have system dependencies or want to control the build process. * Python/Node functions, similar to lambda in the principle, but in this case we also take of all the build process, you simply connect your GitHub repository, we deploy and scale for you.

Don't hesitate to ask if you have other questions.

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