royal zenith
UpVPN app is a WireGuard VPN client. GUI is built with React, TailwindCSS, and daisyUI (and Tauri!).
It uses Serverless model of computing where a server is provisioned when user connects to VPN and deprovisioned when user disconnects from VPN.
All of this happes with single click on the UpVPN app, or single cli command using upvpn cli
It's currently available for macOS, Linux, and Windows (coming soon)
scenic lava
Not a question about the relation to tauri, but how is provisioning a server on demand "serverless"? Isn't that just scaling resources on demand?
royal zenith
Not a question about the relation to tauri, but how is provisioning a server on ...
Your perspective also describes same concept. I'm curious what is "serverless" to you?
scenic lava
My understanding of serverless would be stuff like AWS Lambda
royal zenith
Okay yes, now how does AWS Lambda work?
scenic lava
while this project sounds like you spin up AWS/GCP/Azure/whatever instances on demand, potentially using a premade container or whatever, to serve users
royal zenith
Yup on-demand instances
scenic lava
which by its nature goes against what Lambda stands for
With AWS Lambda, you can run code without provisioning or managing servers. You pay only for the compute time that you consume—there's no charge when your code isn't running. You can run code for virtually any type of application or backend service—all with zero administration. Just upload your code and Lambda takes care of everything required to run and scale your code with high availability.
royal zenith
Can you elabore more on your thoughts? I understand the Lambda description
prisma blade
which by its nature goes against what Lambda stands for
Lambda runs the on-demand instances for you, like this VPN service
scenic lava
Lambda runs the on-demand instances for you, like this VPN service
Well yes but no? Basically any consumer VPN service would be "serverless" then
my understanding of serverless was that it is a way of writing and deploying (parts of) apps, both to save on costs (you only pay for the runtime of your functions) but also on hardware and support as you do not care about where your functions runs as long as they execute properly
prisma blade
Well yes but no? Basically any consumer VPN service would be "serverless" then
No, Mullvad for example has constant servers
Severless is just basically that there are no permanement servers, which makes it cheaper but introduces cold-boots
scenic lava
ohh, right, UpVPN charges you only for usage time, vs mullvad's monthly subscription
prisma blade
Yep
royal zenith
Thank you for clarifying piano1029 ❤️ . Since we're on topic - there are optimizations that makes upvpn avoid cold starts by having "warm" capacity.
high iron
Have you disabled the ability to paste data from the clipboard into these fields in order to have more customers?
Turn off autocorrect, it's nonsense
royal zenith
Thank you for the feedback. Not able to copy paste is a bug. I’m planning to fix these inconveniences in next versions.
Btw, how does disabling copy paste from clipboard leads to more customers?
royal zenith
Turn off autocorrect, it's nonsense
Thank you for reporting the bugs, these are all fixed in recent release.