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Aidan Gee
Alot of our workloads have periods of no traffic / usage. Test environments, processing jobs or just applications that have large spikes of traffic at certain times (product releases as an example) and little interaction outside of these time windows.
It would be great to have the ability for docker containers scale to 0 if there has been no traffic for a period of time. Something akin to the Google App Engine Standard environment or AWS ECS.
At the moment, I love the render product but it's a hard sell to migrate workloads we hardly pay anything for on AWS ECS & Lambda to render where we would have to pay for these to always be running.
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Santhosh PS
Is this available now? How does it work? Is it possible to scale to zero and scale back automatically?
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Aidan Gee
Hi Anurag Goel,
Is this the offering of a free tier to web services (https://render.com/docs/free#free-web-services) thats complete?
So theres still no way to actually auto-scale the paid tiers down to zero ?
Anurag Goel
Aidan Gee: that's correct. we don't have a separate feature request for scaling paid services down to zero, but feel free to create one.
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Bohdan Shulha
Aidan Gee: I've created a feature request for paid services being able to scale to 0: https://feedback.render.com/features/p/scale-to-zero-paid-and-preview-apps
Anurag Goel
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Tansan Astro
Anurag Goel: Is there a way to scale paid tiers down to zero?
Anurag Goel
Tansan Astro: Not at the moment.
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Bohdan Shulha
Tansan Astro: I've created a feature request for this: https://feedback.render.com/features/p/scale-to-zero-paid-and-preview-apps
Anurag Goel
Scale to Zero has been implemented in our Free plan for web services.
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Bohdan Shulha
Hi Anurag Goel, how about paid services? At least, for those that are created for prs?
Anurag Goel
Bohdan Shulha: we don't have a separate feature request for scaling paid services (or PRs) down to zero, but feel free to create one.
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Bohdan Shulha
I've created a request: https://feedback.render.com/features/p/scale-to-zero-paid-and-preview-apps
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Kelvin Omereshone
This would be amazing as I find myself going to Heroku for staging environments
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Hari Demirev
in progress
Anurag Goel
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Anurag Goel
Merged in a post:
Auto suspend / auto stop
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Peter Grman
for staging or deployed feature branches, it'd be nice if the services could be stopped automatically after a period of inactivity. It'd be even cooler if they could be started up automatically upon the first request, but I'd be also fine with starting them via an API or through the UI whenever I need it to be running.
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mirko
I have project where service is running between 4AM and 10AM. It would be great if we could make schedule to turn on and off services.