* their app hosting product is similar to Heroku.
* very easy onboarding and controls for modest complexity apps. Unlike the extreme hoop-jumping required to do anything on one of the major cloud providers.
* everything looks reasonably up to date.
* it's an actual operating profitable company that's been around a while and probably will be for a long time... not a startup burning capital.
That said, this magic containers thing looks more analogous to Google Cloud Run, which I think is an absolutely fantastic offering. Unlike almost everything else out there, Cloud Run and presumably Magic Containers can do things like have a whole bunch of versions of your app up and running ready to come to life when a request arrives, but scaled to zero in the meantime. This category of hosting should be far more popular than it is, and it is wonderful to see another company offer it.
I have been building https://github.com/openrundev/openrun which provides similar scale down to zero functionality, on a single machine with Docker or on top of Kubernetes.
Ideally they let you pull from any url plus publish all bunny IPs so that one set up a registry & firewall everything except their IPs
As SRE, one of most frustrating aspects of my job is dealing with that behavior.
You can have a CF implementation for as little as $70-80 a month (running 24/7).
They're not doing a great job communicating this imo. Felt closer to cloud function style billing to me where its active or sleeping and the pricing alludes to that "pay only for CPU time used"...yet the dollar number they give is full time for 8 cores (I think)?
Props for very honesty but they're not doing themselves any favours there imo
I am not sure the average budget constrained developer is the right audience for this product. Might be a steal for enterprises though if they can run intense tasks at the edge for just $600-700 bucks.
