Digital Ocean pricing calculator
This calculator helps you estimate the cost of hosting your website on Digital Ocean based on the number of requests, the amount of memory used, and the time it takes to execute the function. Pagesize, function runtime, and allocated memory may not affect the price of a provider if the provider is based on per request pricing. But if the provider is using runtime based pricing, these parameters will affect the cost of the functions.
Why is serverless hosting expensive?
Typically the expensive part of serverless hosting is the amount of function invocations. Complex pages can easily have 5-10 function invocations per visit, i.e. authentication, database queries, data massaging. Serverless hosting breaks your code into functions that are executed when a request is made. The cost of these functions is based on the number of requests, the amount of memory used, and the time it takes to execute the function. Some providers charge per request, some charge per function execution time, some charge per memory used. This calculator helps you estimate the cost of hosting your website on Digital Ocean based on the number of requests, the amount of memory used, and the time it takes to execute the function.
About Digital Ocean
DigitalOcean's App Platform delivers serverless hosting that eliminates infrastructure management while providing automatic scaling, global CDN distribution, and seamless Git-based deployments for modern web applications. Their serverless offering stands out for its predictable pricing model, developer-friendly experience, and tight integration with DigitalOcean's broader cloud ecosystem, enabling easy connectivity to managed databases and other cloud resources. DigitalOcean excels at providing enterprise-grade performance and reliability in their serverless platform while maintaining the simplicity and clarity that has made them popular with individual developers, startups, and SMBs.
It can be hard to calculate Digital Ocean cloud hosting pricing
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