Ask HN: Is Serverless Good for Back End APIs?

Hello HN,

I've recently been deploying my backend APIs on AWS Lambda/Cloudflare workers, and my main dislike of this method is the slow cold-boot time. I know this has been the main criticism of serverless, but I'm interested to know some of your opinions on this.

I've been thinking of ditching serverless and host my backend on a VPS on Hetzner or EC2. To anyone who has done this before, what was your experience like?