Cloud-Neutral Radar | Infra & Platform · Serverless & Edge Cloud Architecture
This directory covers modern Cloud-Neutral and Edge-First Serverless Infrastructure Architectures, focusing on multi-environment setups, hybrid scheduling between edge workers, containerized elastic compute, and managed stateful cloud databases.
Documents & Guides
- 如何利用好 Free SaaS 开启自己的在线服务 (中文版)
- How to Leverage Free SaaS to Launch Online Services (English Version)
Architectural Archetypes Comparison
┌─────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────┐
│ Self-Host VPS │ Pure Serverless │ Hybrid Edge & Free SaaS │
├─────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤
│ 1. Ingress Layer │ 1. Ingress Layer │ 1. Edge Ingress & Route │
│ - Direct IP / Nginx │ - API Gateway costs │ - Cloudflare Edge │
│ - No Global CDN │ per-request │ absorbs 90% traffic│
│ - Volumetric risk │ - Scraper cost risks │ - 5 Edge SSR Workers │
├─────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤
│ 2. Compute Layer │ 2. Compute Layer │ 2. Elastic & Failover │
│ - Monolith on 1 VPS │ - Fragmented FaaS │ - GCP Cloud Run │
│ - Single point (SPOF)│ - Cold start latency │ Scale-to-Zero │
│ │ - High concurrency $ │ - Primary-to-Cloud │
│ │ │ failover routing │
├─────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤
│ 3. Database Layer │ 3. Database Layer │ 3. Managed DB & Pooling │
│ - Local Postgres disk│ - Direct connections │ - Supabase Postgres │
│ - Manual maintenance │ exhaust pool limits│ - Supavisor txn pool │
├─────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤
│ 💡 BEST FOR │ 💡 BEST FOR │ 💡 BEST FOR │
│ - Fixed $5 budget dev│ - Event-driven burst │ - $0–$5/mo bootstrap │
│ - Toy / Internal POC │ - Enterprise budgets │ - Global low-latency │
│ - Single-region apps │ - Zero-ops preference│ - Indie Hackers SaaS │
└─────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────┘
