Fastly launches free developer accounts

[simonw]

IMO this addresses what has been Cloudflare's biggest competitive advantage for years - Fastly was out of budget for hobbyists meaning it was much harder for developers to kick the wheels on it.

[dave4420]

Fastly is still out of budget for hobbyists who want to run their logic at the edge. For comparison, Cloudflare Workers starts at $5/month. It would be nice if Fastly could make the stuff that’s only free for 30 days available at a similar price point — jumping straight to $50/month is bit much.

[aspir]

200GB and 2 Million monthly requests; Unlimited L3/4 DDoS mitigation; WebSockets and Push Notifications; K/V store

[dave4420]

Looks like the interesting stuff is only on a 30 day free trial. If you want to use it for a hobby site beyond that, you need to pay US$50+/month.

[pluto_modadic]

last time I checked, functions were part of the "minimum $50/month" thing. This doesn't look like a free tier, it's a trial period.

[anildash]

It’s a free tier for CDN, Storage, Observability, and lots more stuff. Definitely want to hear what you’re looking for on the computing side, we’ll be iterating.

[indigodaddy]

Here’s a Glitch community article about how to use Glitch apps with fastly.. could be a fun parent/child learning project. Glitch is pretty cool..

https://support.glitch.com/t/give-your-glitch-site-a-perform...

[neverokay]

If you mostly generate static content, is the way to go to abuse free tier cdns?

[rurban]

For static content github pages are unbeatable

[lazka]

What happens if you go over the 200GB or 2 Million monthly requests limits?

[indigodaddy]

Can we just put Cloudflare in front? :) joking but half serious actually..