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What is the cold start time of a DO instance image to working VM? Isn't it like 2 minutes?

If a DO droplet for my marketing site cost me $5 per month to run.. I could use your service and save a buck or two, at the risk of a $5000 client timing out on my page as it tries to spin up?

Scaling based on demand is important, but it seems you are better using k8s with some metric based scaling, over trying to hack it on DO?




I think this is not something you'd use for customer facing services. It's fine for internal stuff of the first employee of the day has to wait two minutes, and it gets shut down at night after it hasn't been used for an hour.




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