Show HN: Webbynode – An observatory built from 700 fresh cloud deployments
Webbynode was created to benchmark cloud providers but evolved into an observatory platform. It provides insights from over 700 fresh cloud deployments, offering data on performance and reliability across different cloud services.
Background
- Webbynode is a new benchmarking site that continuously deploys apps across 700+ configurations of cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.) and measures real performance, cost, and reliability — not just advertised specs.
- It was created to address the lack of transparent, apples-to-apples comparisons for cloud services, which are notoriously hard to benchmark because pricing, instance types, and performance vary wildly.
- The founders started by trying to pick a cloud provider for their own projects, found existing benchmarks unreliable or paid, and built their own automated testing platform — which then turned into a public observatory.
- This is relevant to anyone building or deploying software: choosing the wrong cloud provider can mean paying much more for worse performance, but most comparisons are either marketing fluff or too technical to parse.