KraftCloud is pretty awesome! I've only used it for a few days, learning/toying around but I will be using it for my next project. I don't know the right answer because pricing is hard to figure out. But free to $250 a month is a steep jump. I see myself needing more than free in the near future but $250 a month is a big jump when you're talking a small 1 person business. Maybe there could be more incremental tiers or something? A rough guess of a nice pay tier for those who need more than free but not as much as the $250. Maybe something in the $20 to $25 range?
Unikraft Launches KraftCloud: Never Pay for Idle Again
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Re: Unikraft Launches KraftCloud: Never Pay for Idle Again
#22KraftCloud is pretty awesome! I've only used it for a few days, learning/toying around but I will be using it for my next project. I don't know the right answer because pricing is hard to figure out. But free to $250 a month is a steep jump. I see myself needing more than free in the near future but $250 a month is a big jump when you're talking a small 1 person business. Maybe there could be more incremental tiers o…
Very much my thoughts exactly.
Re: Unikraft Launches KraftCloud: Never Pay for Idle Again
#23This looks awesome, congrats on the launch.
I've been pondering this type of issue for awhile, not from an application standpoint, but from a dev environment where I want more resources than my laptop has, but it'll be very bursty workloads and I want them to just pause when I'm not using them. So I'll be excited to see how this tech develops... good luck!
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#24I take you have different unikernels for different technologies?
I pay roughly 50$/m for 4 small machines. I need to handle scaling myself but I constantly have requests coming in.
If I can cold start my Rust & Python services and scale as much as needed without my intervention, that'd be great but I doubt it will be competitive on price vs cheap VPS.
I wish you all the best and hope you become the new standard!
Re: Unikraft Launches KraftCloud: Never Pay for Idle Again
#25KraftCloud is pretty awesome! I've only used it for a few days, learning/toying around but I will be using it for my next project. I don't know the right answer because pricing is hard to figure out. But free to $250 a month is a steep jump. I see myself needing more than free in the near future but $250 a month is a big jump when you're talking a small 1 person business. Maybe there could be more incremental tiers o…
The offering is a bit confusing. kraft.cloud seems to be a different product than unikraft.io . Kraft.cloud is in beta and doesn't have pricing.
I could be mistakened.
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#26Looks great! Would this work for hosting databases too? I found the biggest annoyance and expense on my "infrequently accessed" side projects are databases, which are almost always idle.
Thanks and, yes it does! We have a whole section in our documentation's guides section on example usecases with database: https://docs.kraft.cloud/guides/#databases They work exactly as you suggest, they scale-to-zero when no requests are made and data can be safely stored/transactioned in persistent volumes on the platform too.
If this applies to the dbs too then it's quite unusual and worth shouting about, I'm not aware of other providers which offer that!
Looking at https://docs.kraft.cloud/guides/mariadb/ with the Docker stuff in there I'd half assumed maybe DB instances worked differently from unikernel instances or something
Also because of this other comment:
> Because KraftCloud leverages Unikraft, a unikernel library OS project, we are single-process. Postgres is multi-process since it uses the fork() syscall. If you require Postgres, we can set it up for you as a managed service
Re: Unikraft Launches KraftCloud: Never Pay for Idle Again
#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks and, yes it does! We have a whole section in our documentation's guides section on example usecases with database: https://docs.kraft.cloud/guides/#databases They work exactly as you suggest, they scale-to-zero when no requests are made and data can be safely stored/transactioned in persistent volumes on the platform too.
If this applies to the dbs too then it's quite unusual and worth shouting about, I'm not aware of other providers which offer that! Looking at https://docs.kraft.cloud/guides/mariadb/ with the Docker stuff in there I'd half assumed maybe DB instances worked differently from unikernel instances or something Also because of this other comment: > Because KraftCloud leverages Unikraft, a unikernel library OS project, we…
Hi, Felipe from Unikraft here. Yes, it applies to DB instances too (all instances are the same on KraftCloud with respect to this).
Regarding multi-process, at present Unikraft has partial multi-process support: some multi-process apps work, others not yet -- we're hard at work completing this support.
Re: Unikraft Launches KraftCloud: Never Pay for Idle Again
#28KraftCloud is pretty awesome! I've only used it for a few days, learning/toying around but I will be using it for my next project. I don't know the right answer because pricing is hard to figure out. But free to $250 a month is a steep jump. I see myself needing more than free in the near future but $250 a month is a big jump when you're talking a small 1 person business. Maybe there could be more incremental tiers o…
Hi, yes, we'll offer a "developer" tier in that rough price range.
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#29You should seriously consider a pay as you go plan that bills by minutes or some metric. This is actually what I was expecting when I went to pricing.
Yes, we'll have pay as you go pricing plans.