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Serverless Horrors
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#32"Serverless" is a an Orwellian name for a server-based system!
Thats true!
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#33This site is a bit dated. I remember in response to this Vercel added a way to pause your projects when hitting a spend limit. I enabled it for my account. Still, it made me question why I'm not using a VPS.
Vercel used to be called Zeit. They had a server product called Now that gave you 10 1CPU/1GPU instances for $10/month (or $20 I forgot). It was the best deal.
When Vercel switched everything to serverless, it all became pretty terrible. You need 3rd party services for simple things like DB connection pooling, websockets, cron jobs, simple queue, etc because those things aren’t compatible with serverless. Not to mention cold starts. Just a few weeks ago, I tried to build an API on Next.js+Vercel and get random timeouts due to cold start issues.
Vercel made it easier to build and deploy static websites. But really, why are you using Next.js for static websites? Wordpress works fine. Anything works fine. Serverless makes it drastically harder to build a full app with a back end.
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#34After a quick check on Vercel stories, it seems all payments were discarded or mistakes in the first place. Does it really happen to really have to pay such a bill? Do you need to tweet about it to be reimbursed?
> Do you need to tweet about it to be reimbursed? This is what scares me, is social media the only way to get things sorted out nowadays? What if I don't have a large following nor an account in the first place, do I have to stomach the bill?
This is exactly what happened to me during Covid... I had a flight that got cancelled at the beginning of the pandemic since the country closed the orders (essentially). A year after, still on lock downs and et al, I wanted to enquire about a refund, for months I got not answer, until I caught wind that people using Twitter were actually getting results. Now, I don’t use social media at all, so I had to create a Twitter account, twit about my case et voila! 30 mins after I got a response and they send me a PM with a case number... Not even going to mention the airline, but it is infuriating...
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#35I thought this would be about the horrors of hosting/developing/debugging on “Serverless” but it’s about pricing over-runs. I scrolled aimlessly through the site ignoring most posts (bandwidth usage bills aren’t super interesting) but I did see this one: https://medium.com/@maciej.pocwierz/how-an-empty-s3-bucket-c... About how you make unauth’d API calls to an s3 bucket you don’t own to run up the costs. That was a n…
Same, I was hoping for tales of woe and cloud lock-in, of being forced to use Lambda and Dynamo for something that could easily run on a $20/month VPS with sqlite.
The webflow one at the top has an interesting detail about them not allowing you to offload images to a cheaper service. Which you can probably work around by using a different domain.
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#36"Serverless" is a an Orwellian name for a server-based system!
"There's no cloud; it's just someone else's computer"
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
I believe they changed that shortly after that blog post went viral: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/08/amazon-s3...
Seems an interesting oversight. I can just imagine the roundtable, uhh guys who do we charge for 403? Who can we charge? But what if people hit random buckets as an attack? Great!
> Seems an interesting oversight. I can just imagine the roundtable, uhh guys who do we charge for 403? Who can we charge? But what if people hit random buckets as an attack? Great!
It is amazing, isn't it? Something starts as an oversight but by the time it reaches down to customer support, it becomes an edict from above as it is "expected behavior".
> AWS was kind enough to cancel my S3 bill. However, they emphasized that this was done as an exception.
The stench of this bovine excrement is so strong that it transcends space time somehow.
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#38It would help to round to the cent. With 3 digits to the right of the dot it's ambiguous whether it's a decimal point or a thousands separator, and the font and underline makes the comma vs dot distinction a bit unclear.
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#39Don’t most of these services have config options to protect against doing this? I haven’t used most of these services but it running up a bill during traffic spikes but not going down seems like it’s working as intended?
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#40This site is a bit dated. I remember in response to this Vercel added a way to pause your projects when hitting a spend limit. I enabled it for my account. Still, it made me question why I'm not using a VPS.
Vercel used to be called Zeit. They had a server product called Now that gave you 10 1CPU/1GPU instances for $10/month (or $20 I forgot). It was the best deal. When Vercel switched everything to serverless, it all became pretty terrible. You need 3rd party services for simple things like DB connection pooling, websockets, cron jobs, simple queue, etc because those things aren’t compatible with serverless. Not to ment…
Serverless is the most common deployment on MACH projects.
Because when everything is a bunch of SaaS Lego bricks, serverless is all one needs for integration logic, and some backend like logic.
Add to it that many SaaS vendors in CMS and ecommerce space have special partner deals with Vercel and Nelify.