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Your scheduled job didn't run: cron on Cloudflare, Vercel, Supabase and GitHub

Most missed cron runs come down to UTC, a Sunday that is 1 on one platform and 0 on the next, or a schedule that quietly switched itself off. Here are the rules for four schedulers, from their own docs, plus the hourly job we run ourselves.

Aliteq Team · 2h ago · 11 min

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Software

Serverless explained: what Cloudflare Workers and AWS Lambda really bill you for

There is still a server. You just stop owning it. Here is how Workers and Lambda differ in how they run your code, start cold, and charge you, with the real list prices and the one month our own site hit the free plan's limit.

Aliteq Team · Oct 6 · 9 min

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Runpod in 2026: pods, serverless, and what it really costs

Runpod is the managed middle of GPU rental — per-second billing, pods and serverless, Community vs Secure cloud. A 4090 is ~$0.34/hr, an H100 from ~$1.99/hr (24 Sep 2026). Here's what it really costs.

Aliteq Team · Sep 24 · 8 min

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do you need your own GPU to build an AI app, or can you just use an API?

Most AI apps don't need a GPU — they just call an API. Here's when you actually need to rent one, and what 'pod vs serverless' means in plain words.

Aliteq Team · Sep 23 · 6 min

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RunPod Serverless pricing, explained: why it looks pricier but usually isn't

Serverless per-hour rates look higher than a pod — but they bill per second and scale to zero. The whole decision is one number: how busy your GPU actually is.

Aliteq Team · Sep 23 · 7 min