I do not understand ReplIt's business model. In my head I associate them with cloud ides which were all the rage once upon a time but slowly died out. So who is using Repl It these days? They seem to be hiring frequently so I assume they are growing.
Replit permanently moves to paid hosting after 7 years of free service
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#32I do not understand ReplIt's business model. In my head I associate them with cloud ides which were all the rage once upon a time but slowly died out. So who is using Repl It these days? They seem to be hiring frequently so I assume they are growing.
> So who is using Repl It these days?
Kids, a lot of kids.
Re: Replit permanently moves to paid hosting after 7 years of free service
#33Let's get a clear statement about this.
Fact check: there is still a free tier (0.5GB RAM, 0.5 vCPU, 10GB storage).
Fact check: you get one always-on instance with your "Hacker" plan.
So this post has a totally misleading title.
I don't even understand the use-case that requires these 5 always-on instances, and the complaint site doesn't make it clear.
If this changed, let's get a link to an official post. My downvote will follow this post.
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#34I get that losing access to things you got used to sucks. At the same time, IMO, this post comes across quite entitled and whiny. Nobody owes you anything, specially not free hosting and/or server time forever. That stuff isn’t cheap and isn’t easy to manage, and they’re paying people and infra on what I imagine isn’t a great return. So, free users are sad because it’s not the free they want it to be, except the free…
“Free” is never, ever free and it blows my mind that people still don’t get this. Like, it’s understandable that you get a little burned the first time it happens, but then you’ve learned that this is how it all works. “Free” in a SAAS context has always and will always mean “no need to pay us until we decide otherwise, end of negotiation.” Every time I look at a free account for some product now, I ask myself if I’m…
I’m from very far outside the tech bubble, far enough outside it that people don’t even personally know anybody that writes software and there are almost no local software companies. People in that group - the vast majority of people in the world but by definition not really possible for an engineer to have much contact with - do not understand what work is involved in creating and running software. How well do you know the amount of work involved in getting your medication into your body or your computer chip produced?
I think with software it’s even harder for some people to appreciate the costs because they don’t have an intuitive understanding of what’s required to make it - even though most people don’t know how a lot of their goods and services are made, they know eg a guy in a factory made it and some other guys transported it, and they can kind of put a face to a name. They might know that someone had to design the page they’re looking at, but they have no idea a backend even exists (why do you think we have the term “cloud”?) and no way to estimate what it costs to run, so of course they don’t also know about CVEs and web standards and wipeout/takeout/data residency and multitenancy and releases. They just see a web page that used to work and now doesn’t.
It doesn’t help that so much of the software they use is free, because it’s being used as a funnel/delivery mechanism for paid stuff like hardware or monetized through ads, or paid for by their employer, or because it’s just cheap to maintain. It’s kind of reasonable to assume that all that software stuff you use is free because it’s easy to make. Even though replit is software-for-software, it seems like the type of thing that’s used mostly by beginners who still probably don’t understand what it takes to maintain and operate paid software to a reasonable degree of quality, so the same situation applies.
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#36I stoped reading when it said "unable to pay the extra $292.20/year for 4 more always on repl"... if you're switching cost is so low, then yeah, switch off. But for me <$1 a day sounds worth it for the value.
I’m curious what you use it for?
Heroku (I work there) eco is $5 a month + $5 database ($120 a year).
I understand that the use cases don’t perfectly overlap, so I’m curious about your use case.
Re: Replit permanently moves to paid hosting after 7 years of free service
#37Let's get a clear statement about this. Fact check: there is still a free tier (0.5GB RAM, 0.5 vCPU, 10GB storage). Fact check: you get one always-on instance with your "Hacker" plan. So this post has a totally misleading title. I don't even understand the use-case that requires these 5 always-on instances, and the complaint site doesn't make it clear. If this changed, let's get a link to an official post. My downvot…
Disclaimer: I work at Replit.
You can read all about our hosting changes here: https://blog.replit.com/hosting-changes.
TL;DR
- deprecating always on in favor of new deployments product
- migrate workspace URL to replit.dev from repl.co
- replit.dev is the new development URL. only available when someone is in the editor.
- deployments are the only way to host things on replit
From the blog:
> We remain committed to providing a powerful free development experience to anyone who wants to code. This post is only about the hosting experience, which we are migrating to our new Deployments product.
Re: Replit permanently moves to paid hosting after 7 years of free service
#38Let's get a clear statement about this. Fact check: there is still a free tier (0.5GB RAM, 0.5 vCPU, 10GB storage). Fact check: you get one always-on instance with your "Hacker" plan. So this post has a totally misleading title. I don't even understand the use-case that requires these 5 always-on instances, and the complaint site doesn't make it clear. If this changed, let's get a link to an official post. My downvot…
Disclaimer: I work at Replit. You can read all about our hosting changes here: https://blog.replit.com/hosting-changes . TL;DR - deprecating always on in favor of new deployments product - migrate workspace URL to replit.dev from repl.co - replit.dev is the new development URL. only available when someone is in the editor. - deployments are the only way to host things on replit From the blog: > We remain committed to…
> deployments are the only way to host things on replit
Which is only paid, correct?
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#39I’ve been paying for Replit for quite some time, for a tiny Mastodon bot that makes three posts once daily. The price went up considerably with their last pricing change (about 4x IIRC), but fine, I bought a bunch more cycles and left it there, even though it would have cost me half as much to move to DigitalOcean. I didn’t want to take the time to fiddle with it, and I don’t mind paying for services I use. Now not o…
Disclaimer: I work at Replit. We recently added autoscale (scale-to-zero) & static deployments to our plans. It should be pretty easy for you to host simple sites if you're a sub. Hacker starts at $7/mo. Can read more at replit.com/site/deployments. Alternatively, you can also just add a card and pay for autoscale overages directly.
The problem isn’t that you’re charging too much, or that there’s anything wrong with Deployments per se. The problem is the rate of change. If I have to keep up with a product that’s changing this often, I might as well self-host.
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#40Rent a $5/mo Linux VPS and be happy. I think more people should do this because what you learn (and you'll learn a lot) is the foundation of everything else. Do this even if you are a programmer used to deploying to sophisitcated CI/CD stacks and k8s. The tight resource constraints (e.g. 1G RAM) are good for you - they make you think, and take care what you run and when you run it. Learn to setup ssh on both ends; le…
Do you have a link to this 5 dollar service you mention? The ones I knew have risen prices considerably.
Tornado VPS (used to be prgmr.com) is another one: https://tornadovps.com/order/main/packages/xen/
For $5 you get 1.25 GiB RAM and 15 GiB SSD.
Started using them for almost 15 years ago when running an SMTP server on home-tier internet connections became less feasible.