October 27th, 2023
Sustaining free compute in a hostile environment
Today, we reaffirm our commitment to maintaining a free tier. We explain how we intend to sustain it and why we are so committed to providing one. We provide a free tier so users can explore the platform and deploy a hobby project before deploying a production-grade application. This is a story about bare metal, abuse, credit cards, and scale-to-zero.