WSGI Restart Beta

[Krydos]

Thank you to everyone who helped beta test our WSGI restart access for Flask and Django apps. We now have enough data from the testing to end the beta. We have determined that enabling WSGI restart access uses at a minimum 260 GB memory per day per domain.

Obviously this is a death sentence for any Tommy or Johnny account, since you're only allowed to use 200 GB per day, so WSGI restart access is now a feature only available on Morty. We have gone through all of the accounts on Morty, Tommy, and Johnny and disabled the WSGI restart access so there are no surprise suspensions or surprise bills.

If you're on Morty and your WSGI access was removed please feel free to re-request it. If you do request WSGI restart access on Morty for one domain be aware that you're probably looking at a bill of $1.91 or more per month as long as it is enabled. If you enable WSGI restart access on two Morty domains you'll probably end up paying about $5.86 per month.

Being able to clear the server cache is definitely helpful for debugging your Flask or Django app, so if you want to enable WSGI restart access on Morty temporarily for debugging, and then disable it for the lower bill later, that is fine with us. Please be aware that we attempt to respond to all support requests as quickly as possible, usually within an hour or two, but occasionally it can take up to 24 hours to complete if it's a holiday, the middle of the night, we're all busy, etc. etc. 24 hours of WSGI restart access only costs about 3 cents though, so no need to panic.

[talesaz]

Thank you for the information. How will the billing and payment be handled to keep WSGI activated?

Considering the estimated cost of $5.86 to keep the restart active for two domains, would migrating to a VPS be the best option in this case?

[Krydos]

1 hour ago, talesaz said:

How will the billing and payment be handled to keep WSGI activated?

The way Morty billing works is you get 200 GB memory and 10k CPU per day for the base rate of $0.0329 which is about $1.00 per month. If you go over the 200 GB memory limit you get charged an extra $0.0005 per 1 GB memory. If you go over the 10k CPU limit you get charged an extra $0.005 per 1k CPU. Since WSGI restart access uses about 260 GB memory per day per domain. That is (60 GB * $0.0005) + $0.0329 = $0.0629 per day, which comes out to about $1.91 per month.

The way VPS billing works is you get a dedicated amount of memory that you can use however you want for a fixed rate per month. The Mercury VPS has 1 GB memory, which after the OS uses some is about 800 MB dedicated to you. (800 MB / 1024) * 1440 minutes means you have about 1125 GB per day for about $0.1315 per day.

Another thing to consider is Morty doesn't have an account number limit so you could just put WSGI restart access on 2 different accounts and have $1.91 + $1.91 = $3.82 which is still less than the cheapest $4.00 VPS. Another advantage of Morty is VPS don't come with Plesk for free, so if you want Plesk it would be an additional $15.49 per month on top of the $4.00 you pay to us for the VPS.