I run a rust webserver on a €4 VPS from hetzner that serves 300M (million) requests a day. Way cheaper than doing that on _any_ "serverless" request-based platform, I think.
Yes perhaps I should have specified you can't get much cheaper for serverless platforms.
You can certainly run a VPS like that for cheaper, you could probably even beat the raw request numbers from those 1€ a month vps from ovh or similar. The key difference is with cloudflare your site is globally distributed by default, and you get to buy into the whole ecosystem, if you want.
But sometimes you do have clients in both sides of the atlantic and it's nice being able to cut their request times by a few hundred ms "for free". Personally, that's not the main reason I use cloudflare, but it can be handy!
Yes perhaps I should have specified you can't get much cheaper for serverless platforms.
You can certainly run a VPS like that for cheaper, you could probably even beat the raw request numbers from those 1€ a month vps from ovh or similar. The key difference is with cloudflare your site is globally distributed by default, and you get to buy into the whole ecosystem, if you want.
> The key difference is with cloudflare your site is globally distributed by default, and you get to buy into the whole ecosystem, if you want.
The real question nobody asks: do you even really need global distribution?
Most of the time: no
But sometimes you do have clients in both sides of the atlantic and it's nice being able to cut their request times by a few hundred ms "for free". Personally, that's not the main reason I use cloudflare, but it can be handy!
interesting, I'd assumed the lowest tier of hetzner (4.50/m, 2 cpus, 4GB ram) wouldn't hold up to that.
must be very light, for so much traffic. any more details?
It's a BitTorrent tracker
tracker.mywaifu.best:6969/announce
Running https://github.com/ckcr4lyf/kiryuu
(Disclaimer: I'm the author of kiryuu)
CPX11, so 2vCPU/2GB