Scale to zero - paid and preview apps
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Bohdan Shulha
Hi team,
It would be super-useful for paid apps be able to sleep. It would save extra costs and improve loyalty to the platform.
Heroku has the same issue - review apps are not going to sleep at all and it is a great waste of money for idle services.
However, there are 3rd-party add-ons that enables the feature (on Heroku), but from Render I'd love to see this feature built-in.
Thank you!
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Kevin
Completely agree - this would really make Render stand out from other offerings like this.
This is one of the major challenges I am facing with my deployment as I have a background worker that can require a lot of resources and who I want to keep seperate from my main app but at the same time is not used constantly.
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Filip Larsson Tibell
Would also love to see this. We host an API that performs compute intensive tasks such as OCR for video. These tasks are generally requested in bulk by users, so scaling to zero when there are no users, while still having an active service and instant response times during user activity, would be very useful.
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Alex Zlotnik
I'd be into this, or another option (which could include the databases also) is allowing
previewPlan: free
(since I don't care about uptime or nothin' on those). This is related to https://feedback.render.com/features/p/allow-pull-request-previews-to-be-on-free-tier.