Show HN: Serverful – deploy stateful containers like serverless functions

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Hello HN! I'm the founder of Serverful (https://serverful.io).

Serverful provides experience similar to serverless.com - but for containers

Lambdas are great (and they support container images too), but for some types of workloads it is more practical to run a container with provisioned compute capacity. For example, anything stateful, or things that require low latency, or server-side rendering, or consistently high loads.

If you are using something like Serverless Framework then up until this point there was no need to think of infrastructure at all. The framework took care of it. But now that you need to run a container you have to go a few levels down and deal with networking, permissions etc, either in AWS UI or with Terraform / CloudFormation / etc.

Serverful fixes that - simply connect your repository and it gets deployed, just like with serverless.com. Under the hood it creates an ECS Fargate cluster (or K8S), configures networking, CloudWatch, etc. You can also deploy databases and static webapps.

Would love to hear your feedback!

The plans page doesn’t go into enough detail. What size of DB is available on the hosted version. For both what’s the max ingress and egress that we can do? Etc etc

Thanks! At the moment it's t3.micro We haven't yet put network limits in place tbh, just hoping people won't abuse it. We will soon though.

Thanks for clarifying!

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