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I think the biggest difference is webhosting provider can't scale your php resource up and down infinitely in real time. Your software is not exposed to the ser

I think the biggest difference is webhosting provider can't scale your php resource up and down infinitely in real time. Your software is not exposed to the server but constrained by it. The idea of serverless is that your service is automatically distributed and not constrained by the capability of some web server.

duhast 7y ago
Infinitely?
ninegunpi 7y ago
To scale shipping static content, I'd rather look into CDN with proper caching, instead of maintaining ten layers of abstraction just to feel good about how modern my stack is.
- icebraining 7y ago
  Yes, but what about non-static? Also, a CDN would also classify as "serverless", under the definition used by the article.