Be able to absorb 100s of new users at once

[lourot]

Demand is high: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17951478

[sam0x17]

as per my comment on HN, a good way to do this might be using headless chrome via puppeteer from within a Google Cloud Function or using AWS Lambda. IP rate limiting might not be an issue given how the network of worker nodes is set up. You could even write one cloud function per provider (there are like 4 or 5 that do serverless functions including Google, AWS, CloudFlare, etc) and randomly select between these to further increase your IP uniqueness.

[sam0x17]

Yet another option might be to use Google's networking module to purchase a large pool of IPs and proxy through them via a cloud function as described above. I'm pretty sure that is possible.

Edit: looks like this might be possible from the Google Cloud control panel if you go to VPC Networking => External IP Addresses

edit again: apparently those can only be assigned to VPS instances. Still, you could use that to your advantage. Assign like 10 IPs to a beefy VPS, then you can do 10 profiles at a time if you can programattically select which IP to use for the current request via Google's API. I don't know amazon's stack as well but I'm sure they have the equivalent.

[styfle]

You might want to reach out to @zeit because they have a system that can build and deploy any Dockerfile and then auto scale as traffic increases. They will typically provide free or subsidized hosting for open source projects.

I am using zeit now to host a somewhat popular project with great success 😄

https://zeit.co/now

[joecohens]

Maybe this can repo can help https://github.com/zeit/now-examples it's filled with lot of examples using Dockerfile deployments, also you can read more about it here https://zeit.co/blog/serverless-docker if you have questions let me know 😄

[tunnckoCore]

Yup. Now is the way to go. Or at least if the current plans are don't not enough, contact them, they may support OSS with some customized plan.

Now is just freaking zero pain and zero efforts, 3 characters on a terminal and nothing more, and gives so freaking much in return. It's not just a hype or whatever. This company is really pawning and rocketing the things.