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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Hasty Treat - Hosting + Web Services Pricing Explainer

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, Technology, News

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about how hosting and web services pricing works, and how to figure out what you need, and what you don’t. LogRocket - Sponsor LogRocket lets you replay what users do on your site, helping you reproduce bugs and fix issues faster. It’s an exception tracker, a session re-player and a performance monitor. Get 14 days free at logrocket.com/syntax. Show Notes 01:55 - Per minute Spin up, do the work, spin down Popular in serverless space Can apply to other types of computing such as graphics, AI, machine learning, etc. 03:49 - By resources Ram CPU Disk space 06:02 - Per “dyno” These are Heroku Linux servers You can add more dynos and make your app faster They scale it for you 08:54 - By bandwidth Sitting files Inbound (ingress) Output 12:24 - By DB calls or entries Databases 14:04 - By users This is more of a Sass thing, but can bleed into hosting too Seat-based - Netlify does something like this 17:23 - By apps Digital Ocean app platform Each app is $5 21:22 - By “work” Cloudinary does transforms on images Mux Links Heroku AWS Digital Ocean Meteor Galaxy Linode Rackspace MediaTemple GoDaddy Bluehost Backblaze B2 Mux GraphQL Github Netlify 1Password Cloudinary Firefox Containers Chrome grouped tabs Brave Digital Ocean app platform Cloudflare Vercel Prisma Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

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0:00.0

Monday, Monday, Monday, Monday.

0:02.0

Open wide Dev fans.

0:04.0

Get ready to stuff your face with JavaScript,

0:07.0

CSS, node modules, barbecue tips, get workflows,

0:10.0

breakdancing, soft skills, web development,

0:12.0

the hastiest, the craziest, the craziest development the hastiest the craziest the tastiest web development treats coming in hot here is

0:18.1

Wes Barracuda bars and Scott El Toroloco, Torlinsky.

0:25.0

Oh, welcome to Syntex.

0:28.0

In this Monday, hasty treat we're going to be talking about hosting and web servicing.

0:33.7

Web services pricing explained.

0:36.1

So a lot of times we head to a new service

0:39.0

and it says this is going to cost you 0.3 cents

0:42.3

per who's it's and what's it's and you might just be like

0:45.1

ooh I don't know what that is. So we're going to be talking all about the

0:48.2

different types of pricing that different services can charge you what what they all mean,

0:52.8

and how that affects your bottom line.

0:55.8

My name is Scott Tolensky.

0:56.9

I'm a web developer from Denver, Colorado,

0:59.0

and with me, as always, is the West Bals.

1:01.6

Hey, I'm excited about the show.

1:03.7

It's not going to be the most fun show ever, but this is something that...

1:07.4

It's true.

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