Serverless pricing model doesn't have to be transferred to your customers.
If you know them well and their usage patterns, you can predict with confidence how much each customer will cost you. With granularity to the level of a feature or even a particular action.
This allows for extremely precise and safe unit economics planning. I couldn't be happier with this benefit from serverless.
In a server-based infra you have many fixed costs: servers themselves, unused capacity, and your time to maintain it, which is certainly expensive, since it competes with attention to the product or maybe sales and customer support.
Kubernetes on DigitalOcean scales pretty well.. fixed monthly cost. If I run out of capacity I just add an extra node or switch to more powerful nodes. Kubernetes takes care of provisioning the nodes.
Google APIs OTOH... I went from $0/month to $450 the next because of their stupid per-unit pricing and hidden API calls.
If your server administrator doubles as your sales person maybe but for most companies these are different roles and you need someone to manage your fly.io account/docker image or your aws account. Sales, customer support, legal, marketing should be affected. If you are a one man show that's a different conversation.
If you know them well and their usage patterns, you can predict with confidence how much each customer will cost you. With granularity to the level of a feature or even a particular action.
This allows for extremely precise and safe unit economics planning. I couldn't be happier with this benefit from serverless.
In a server-based infra you have many fixed costs: servers themselves, unused capacity, and your time to maintain it, which is certainly expensive, since it competes with attention to the product or maybe sales and customer support.