Performance-M Dynos Considered Harmful to Your Wallet

When you're on a cloud hosting provider, there are often several options provided for the size and type of server you can rent. For example, AWS has the m and c series instance types, Heroku has 4 or 5 different dyno types and sizes, and Google Cloud has a few different configurations as well.When making this decision, there are a few parameters to keep in mind from a scaling cost effectiveness perspective:CPU benchmarkingRAM per dollarCPU cores per dollarYou can also, of course, compare these metrics across providers, but that's a more complicated decision, of which "cost effective scaling" is just one part. However, making the right choice between the various options your provider has can make a difference (sometimes a big one) in cost.