Question about cluster hosting: I’m currently paying for a cluster hosted on Prisma servers. I’ve recently noticed a tutorial on Prisma to host the cluster on Zeit Now. Since I already have a subscription to Zeit Now for other servers, I’m considering moving from Prisma Cloud to Zeit Now to centralize all my servers in one place as well as reduce my monthly expenses. What would be the pros/cons of staying on Prisma Cloud (apart from the additional expense and servers at different places) For example, I would have to give up the data browser and some analytics dashboard, right?

I was testing zeit + gcp and latency was higher and not that realible like with prisma hosted servers

what (pricing) plan are you using on Prisma cloud (just out of curiousity since I'm also looking into deployemnt options)?

One downside is you’d stop supporting people that are supporting you.

Hey @windkomo, you can connect your externally hosted server to Prisma Cloud as well, to get the data browser and metrics etc.

@zonofthor I just pay for one cluster, 45$ a month, no workspace plan

Servers that are managed by us in Prisma Cloud are autoscaled - that means that you don't have to worry about adapting to dynamic usage. You can also do a zero downtime upgrade from within your Console to a new Prisma version. When you host a server yourself, you have to think about those topic yourself. I assume you are running the server for some while now, because we changed our pricing and repackaged that under the new Prisma Serverless offering.

I am using prisma hosted server and everything is fine

yeah I’ve been running it for about 3-4 months now

We don't offer the $45 clusters to new customers, existing customers still have access to it.

Ok I see, thanks

agree here, $199 is too much even if it saves lots of time in depoloyment - I'd really like to see a cheaper entry plan

Autoscaling and zero downtime deployments are also advanced features, that you can also build yourself 🙂

but isn't Prisma cloud hosting introducing lag since GraphQL server is not near Prisma?

yeah, but I’d rather pay less and have some downtime and no auto scaling

@windkomo have you looked into the Heroku integration? Or deploying Prisma at other cloud providers?

@nilan not yet, when I deployed my cluster, these options didn’t exist I think

that's true, we introduced the Heroku integration only recently.

yeah thanks a lot 🙂

nah it shouldn't!

perfect

@nilan do you mind explaining how there'd be no lag, do you mean it's not noticable? because if true I'm looking into Prisma cloud again for production

I don't mean to hijack the thread, but since Nilan is here... 🙂 How much ram is suggested for a Prisma server? Heroku is wildly expensive for 2gb, and I've heard that as "the number." Is that correct?

I can't give a definitive answer (those topics are super subjective and depend on your situation a lot), but 2GB is certainly a good default.