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I've been out of web dev for a few years, but my understanding of the appeal of serverless is that it is theoretically pay only for what you use. But if you're hosting Tau to do serverless via Tau, well, it's not really serverless anymore. You are now definitely paying for the server running the serverless infra.

Why would anyone target Tau serverless, then? What am I missing?

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That’s not the only appeal of serverless. In fact it’s not even really true - I pay Vercel a flat rate every month whether I’m heavily using it or not.

The appeal of serverless for me is simplicity. It abstracts the server away. Less to think about, more brain capacity focused on unique business logic.

> The appeal of serverless for me is simplicity.

That's interesting, because serverless is far from simple and Vercel is about the same distance from simplicity as the sun is from the edge of the observable universe.

as cal85 said, The appeal of serverless for me is simplicity. that said, tau will support containers and even VMs by the end of the year

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