> Serverless! How? [...] We provision a VPN server on-demand when you connect.
You keep using that word...
You keep using that word...
More seriously, serverless has come to really mean “almost fully outsourced ops”. If all you need to do is check logs and your bill, but you can still run arbitrary code, then it is serverless.
It seems like you can't run any code at all on this service, though.
And if the service provider itself uses a serverless model to run their application which provides a service to me... Why do I care, as a customer?
Its a computing model people recognize .. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serverless_computing
Nobody calls Netflix a "serverless VOD platform" either, or Verizon a "serverless wireless carrier".
To me, "serverless" means "you'd normally be setting up a server yourself in some way (whether low-level and manually, or via a standardized VM or container image orchestration solution), but here you don't have to".
As a VPN user (of this type of VPN in any case; corporate VPNs are a different beast), I've never had to set up a server myself – I'm paying to use somebody else's server!
In other words, we also don't call Gmail "serverless".