The hidden costs of serverless
The hidden cost of all cloud based software. Even the cheapest cloud (seems to be Google at the moment) is 5x or more of the price of an equivalent dedicated server (2x for &quot;compute&quot;, &gt;20x for bandwidth, so 5x is somewhat average. And that&#x27;s compared to &quot;normal&quot; dedi providers. Ok to use Leaseweb, Hetzner and OVH ? Make it 10x more expensive).<p>Since VPS&#x27;s exist cloud doesn&#x27;t even make sense for the smallest websites anymore. Ironically VPS&#x27;s predate and are even the basis of cloud systems.<p>And there&#x27;s the intangible technical debt that cloud imparts. Whichever cloud you pick, in the future you&#x27;ll change. That&#x27;s how the world works. Switching dedicated service providers is a complicated ops problem. Switching cloud providers is a full rewrite of everything AND a complicated ops problem. Just being on the cloud, by itself, forces you to put in serious technical debt.<p>I don&#x27;t understand, even after using cloud at work, what those cloud systems provide that can&#x27;t be done, better, cheaper, and with less relying on a single organisation, on dedicated service providers.<p>I mean Google&#x27;s hypervisor is good (very good), but it still imparts significant costs compared to bare metal.