scalers Archives | Clever Cloud https://www.clever.cloud/blog/tag/scalers/ From Code to Product Mon, 02 Oct 2023 09:47:59 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://cdn.clever-cloud.com/uploads/2023/03/cropped-cropped-favicon-32x32.png scalers Archives | Clever Cloud https://www.clever.cloud/blog/tag/scalers/ 32 32 Announcing Larger Scalers for Apps https://www.clever.cloud/blog/features/2019/09/17/announcing-larger-scalers-apps/ Tue, 17 Sep 2019 17:09:00 +0000 https://www2.cleverapps.io/wp/blog/technology/2019/09/17/announcing-larger-scalers-apps/ new flavours 1

This month you may have noticed something new on the pricing page: two new flavours showed up. Two new pretty big flavours: 2XL and 3XL. So now, Clever Cloud offers the 2XL and the 3XL instance sizes. Theses instances benefit from a higher number of CPU and RAM, optimized for compute and memory intensive tasks. As we gain more and more users, new needs are coming up. Like CPU intensive tasks or huge memory needs for high-end softwares, without having to split CPU tasks between several instances. Customers running video encoding, mathematical tasks, batch processing, distributed analytics or similar will benefit from the high processor and memory size of these instances. To match these new high-end demands, we added two new instance sizes:
  • The 2XL instance:
    • 12 CPUs
    • 24 GB of RAM
  • The 3XL instance:
    • 16 CPUs
    • 32 GB of RAM
You can run your apps on top of these new instances today (you can check the pricing here). Banner image credit: Nasa Echo Project]]> new flavours 1

This month you may have noticed something new on the pricing page: two new flavours showed up. Two new pretty big flavours: 2XL and 3XL. So now, Clever Cloud offers the 2XL and the 3XL instance sizes. Theses instances benefit from a higher number of CPU and RAM, optimized for compute and memory intensive tasks. As we gain more and more users, new needs are coming up. Like CPU intensive tasks or huge memory needs for high-end softwares, without having to split CPU tasks between several instances. Customers running video encoding, mathematical tasks, batch processing, distributed analytics or similar will benefit from the high processor and memory size of these instances. To match these new high-end demands, we added two new instance sizes:
  • The 2XL instance:
    • 12 CPUs
    • 24 GB of RAM
  • The 3XL instance:
    • 16 CPUs
    • 32 GB of RAM
You can run your apps on top of these new instances today (you can check the pricing here). Banner image credit: Nasa Echo Project]]> New Flavours Starting at Less Than $5 https://www.clever.cloud/blog/company/2015/07/22/new-flavours-pricing-update/ Wed, 22 Jul 2015 16:49:00 +0000 https://www2.cleverapps.io/wp/blog/technology/2015/07/22/new-flavours-pricing-update/ new flavours 1

We are excited to announce two new scalers with smaller prices. The Pico and the Nano scalers. That was one of the most requested features this year, and we are glad to announce its general availability today.

Starting at less than $5 per month, these new instances provide our users with new application architecture perspectives, as well as an affordable way to host small projects.

Technical specs

So, two new flavours, with one shared vCPU each:

pico

  • RAM: 256MB
  • CPU: 1 core
  • Price: €4.50 ($4.98) per month

nano

  • RAM: 512MB
  • CPU: 1 core
  • Price: €6.0 ($6.64) per month

How does it work?

Releasing these scalers was quite a tour de force for our engineers. Being able to deploy Node, Docker or Scala applications on such tiny instances is not possible if you don't outsource the very resource-consuming build phase.

So here's how we managed this: the build phase is deported on a specific server in charge of building the application. Then, the artifact is simply copied to the pico or nano instance, and started as usual.

This process allows us to have a cache of the build. This cache is used when your instance needs to restart, scale up or scale down very quickly.

Getting Started

No new knowledge is required to start with these new scalers. All you have to do is to use Clever Cloud as you always did. The new flavours are available in the console for all the languages we support, under the scalability option of your apps.

Happy coding!

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We are excited to announce two new scalers with smaller prices. The Pico and the Nano scalers. That was one of the most requested features this year, and we are glad to announce its general availability today.

Starting at less than $5 per month, these new instances provide our users with new application architecture perspectives, as well as an affordable way to host small projects.

Technical specs

So, two new flavours, with one shared vCPU each:

pico

  • RAM: 256MB
  • CPU: 1 core
  • Price: €4.50 ($4.98) per month

nano

  • RAM: 512MB
  • CPU: 1 core
  • Price: €6.0 ($6.64) per month

How does it work?

Releasing these scalers was quite a tour de force for our engineers. Being able to deploy Node, Docker or Scala applications on such tiny instances is not possible if you don't outsource the very resource-consuming build phase.

So here's how we managed this: the build phase is deported on a specific server in charge of building the application. Then, the artifact is simply copied to the pico or nano instance, and started as usual.

This process allows us to have a cache of the build. This cache is used when your instance needs to restart, scale up or scale down very quickly.

Getting Started

No new knowledge is required to start with these new scalers. All you have to do is to use Clever Cloud as you always did. The new flavours are available in the console for all the languages we support, under the scalability option of your apps.

Happy coding!

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