Smaller instance sizes?
bbhoss
FREEOP

a month ago

As a trial user, I can't seem to change the instance size, it's locked to 2vCPU and 1GB memory (despite the trial supposedly being more limited than that?). My question is if I move to the hobby plan, what can I scale down to? I have one service I need to run 24/7 and want to know if it's possible to do that for $5/mo. I also need postgres running as well.

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Pro user here. Min I can scale down to is 0.5 for both:

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I suspect it will be the same for Hobby, I don't see why they would restrict the lower end. I'll see if I can find something conrete.


Mhm, can't find anything in the docs. Perhaps a team member can confirm. 🙂


bbhoss
FREEOP

a month ago

thanks. so it seems like this would run roughly $15/mo? Thats the least you can spend and run 24/7? So I guess the hobby plan is mainly for "serverless"?


bbhoss
FREEOP

a month ago

But wouldnt postgres also need to run 24/7 and can't be serverless? 🤔 What do you see in practice?


I believe you're only charged for active CPU time, and only memory used (both per min)


So you could have service running 24/7 and not cost you much if it does absolutely nothing.


I could be wrong. Please someone correct me if that's the case so I can scale down some services 😂


bbhoss
FREEOP

a month ago

interesting, Ill need to take a look into that. So it's based on cpu consumption somehow? It's going to be drinking from the bsky firehose but its only using like 5% of my cpu to do that


I suspect it is because the free tier exists, and you get $1/mo for that.


…and I have a fair few services on my evaluation project and I'd expect my usage to be much higher than it currently is given all the cores it has.


bbhoss
FREEOP

a month ago

the docs say to just "try it" to get the estimate lol. Kinda wanted to know up front to see if it's worth my time. But thanks for trying, I guess I'll go ahead with it. It sounds like potentially there's some level of cpu activity engaged


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